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.
Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.
Key organisations from across the screen industry have made a united and formal commitment to work towards building a more inclusive sector.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has commissioned a short film from Ludo Studio to further its campaign to protect children’s content.
The groundswell of support for the Australian screen industry’s Make it Australian campaign grows by the day.
“As an industry we have to constantly go to government with cap-in-hand, seeking to be recognised," 'The Doctor Blake Mysteries' star tells IF.
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.
The Australian screen industry can brace itself for yet another Canberra-led inquiry, this time from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications.