We need local streaming quotas to boost Australian content

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.

Arts Minister Tony Burke’s new bill for local content quotas for streaming platforms currently on the tableis a modest intervention in the streaming video market.