The Federal Government has committed to a staged process of media regulation reform, ultimately culminating in what it hopes will be "platform-neutral regulatory framework covering both online and offline delivery of media content."
Australia’s screen industry craft guilds have decried the Federal Government’s abrupt decision to fold the Department of Communications and the Arts into a new super ministry, omitting the Arts, as an insult to the industry.
Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner used his opening address to the organisation’s Screen Forever conference to call for greater support from regulators and government in order to consider strategic interventions that will address competition and trade issues that have emerged in the digital era.