The idea that the decline in audiovisual investments in Australia alone 'triggered' streaming quotas is a fallacious and superficial conclusion of regulatory realities.
Such a legislative reaction is always the result of a deep strategic reflection, not a conjunctural response to a single statistic.
The Australian government had already laid the groundwork for this regulation long before this decline, seeking to protect its cultural sovereignty against global platforms.
Confusing a market symptomatology with the underlying cause of state intervention is a misanalysis.
For example, the European Union implemented similar rules, such as the SMA directive, without waiting for a collapse in investments, but in anticipation of structural imbalances.