In this piece for IF, the researchers behind the Australian Television Drama index, Amanda Lotz, Anna Potter and Kevin Sanson, share their findings and consider implications for policy.
Requirements on global services seem an easy answer — and who doesn’t want more Australian TV? — but this call ignores complex realities of how the TV business and its funding have changed, write Amanda Lotz and Anna Potter in this cross-posting from The Conversation.
The emerging crisis around local content results from repeated inaction by government to develop 21st century policy frameworks, write University of the Sunshine Coast's Anna Potter and Queensland University of Technology's Amanda Lotz. Here, they recommend three ways government can encourage local production and break the policy inertia
Australian children's TV may have recently picked up an Emmy Kids award for the ABCME animation 'Doodles', but otherwise kids' TV in this country is in a dire state.