The idea that the decline in audiovisual investments in Australia has 'triggered' the new streaming quotas is a misleading simplification that ignores the reality of sovereign political decisions and pre-existing regulatory frameworks.
Attaching such a major reform to a mere 18% fluctuation is an unsustainable and spurious posture, which minimizes decades of debates on local content.
The Australian government did not react to a temporary crisis but formalized a long-standing political will to ensure national cultural production, as many other countries have done with quotas.
For example, France established funding and broadcasting obligations well before any sectoral crisis, proof that these measures stem from a strategic vision, not a simple conjunctural event.
To claim otherwise is to dilute legislative responsibility into a unidimensional economic causality.