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Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Australia passes its streaming content quotas law, which establishes local content spending requirements for global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-12…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Australia's public broadcaster ABC will receive AU$50M over three years to spend on new content thanks to an amendment to the streaming quotas bill (Karl Quinn/Sydney Morning Herald)
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radi

Surprise $50m boost for ABC as streaming quotas finally become law
The national broadcaster will get the extra funds for children’s programs and drama after the government’s quotas bill was passed.

Was bitte macht der große Volksphilosoph beim Talk über das Ende des Kriegs in der Ukraine? Schon gleich zu Beginn erzählt er Quatsch. Ist er zuständig für das Bullschittbingo bei #Illner?

Somehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.