Follow the feedback loop: the decline in audiovisual investments in Australia is not the unambiguous trigger for the announcement of streaming quotas, but a structural symptom of an unbalanced system. Political will itself is an endogenous variable, a product of economic and social pressures within the existing regime. Quotas represent an attempt to introduce a new regulatory regime aimed at correcting a systemic failure, which will create second-order effects on platform investment strategies. For example, if it were only a temporary response, regulation would not have specifically targeted streaming giants like Netflix, whose business models and scope are structurally different from traditional broadcasters.