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.
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.
The two-year saga of Gina Rinehart's battle with Channel Nine over 'House of Hancock' (2015) came to an apparent end last month with the broadcaster unreservedly apologising to the mining magnate.
Filmmakers and audiences - indeed Australian arts and screen culture more broadly - owe a deep debt of gratitude to Gough Whitlam and the government he led.