Australians don’t want to watch Australian stories, why force them?

Albania’s government wants to push streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+ to produce more Australian content to support local creative industries that some fear are in crisis. So should Australia implement local content quotas?

To discuss this question in today’s Fight Friday cricket Regular Ben Eltham argues in the positive and our political editor Bernard Keane argues in the negative.

While we are not as bad as Trump et al, this is a continuing feature of Australian protectionism; Not only are we re-adopting supporting unsustainable industries, but we’re doing it badly.