A “resentful, mendicant” model is developing between the screen industry and government, according to Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner.
Australian online content creators, both established and emerging, are at the front and centre of the Comedy Channel's new skit series, 'The Slot', produced by Princess Pictures.
The last financial year saw the amount spent on drama production in Australia crack $1 billion for the first time, thanks in part to record levels of foreign project spend and bolstered local feature film production.
The Senate inquiry into the economic and cultural value of Australian content on broadcast TV, streaming services and radio is motivated partly by fears the government could ditch local content quotas without parliament’s approval.
The Australian screen industry can brace itself for yet another Canberra-led inquiry, this time from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications.
The ABC has strongly rejected the commercial free-to-air broadcasters’ demands that it restrict its role to providing programming which they cannot or will not provide.
Without government intervention Australia would become a dumping ground for content from bigger English-speaking markets, according to Screen Producers Australia.
Australia’s commercial free-to-air broadcasters have asked the government for sweeping changes to local content regulations.