Former ABC director of television Kim Dalton has been appointed as a director of Screenrights - a multimillion dollar collection society which pays royalties to producers, writers and directors.
Read an excerpt from Dalton’s new Platform Paper 'Missing in action: The ABC and Australia’s Screen Culture', published this week by Currency House.
The past four years have seen the ABC’s commissioning budgets for adult drama and children’s content drop around 20 per cent each, according to new data released via Senate Estimates.