Given the current focus on Australia as a production destination, what are the current opportunities for local producers to forge international partnerships and turn the boom in to long-term sustainable growth?
ABC managing director David Anderson reiterated his opposition to local content obligations for the broadcaster at Senate Estimates on Tuesday, describing it as a "breach of independence".
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.
ABC managing director David Anderson has rejected the Federal Government's proposition public broadcasters be mandated to produce Australian content, as outlined in its recent green paper.
Both SPA and the ADG have identified the potential for a "production void" if there is a prolonged delay between the government's relaxation of local content quotas for commercial free-to-air broadcasters and any imposition of obligations on streamers.