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.
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.