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With the rise of streaming platforms, Australian television can reach a global audience – but what will that audience be seeing?
Australian TV drama series have shrunk in length from their heyday, and broadcasters are making 20% less of them than they did two decades ago.
Pursuing local content requirements on streaming services is a high risk, low reward campaign. The reality is global streamers can’t save Australian television.
The 2020 federal budget allocates an additional A$53 million towards screen funding, but there are strings attached.
The pandemic pause on local children’s television content has become policy. Now what for kids’ TV?
The prime minister is being told we should “re-shore” critical supplies. But that’s not the same as ensuring we have access to them.
Australian drama, documentary and children’s programs deserve better support – removing content quotas may be the way forward.
The federal government’s decision to water down commercial TV networks’s content quotas until the end of the year is another body-blow to the arts.
With commercial broadcasters threatening to thumb their noses at local content quotas, it’s time government finds new tools appropriate for the 21st century television environment.
New ABS figures on film, TV and digital gaming show that subscription broadcasters and online content creators are booming. Yet local content quotas only apply to free-to-air broadcasters.
It is important to nurture local companies and increase domestic participation in Africa’s emerging oil economies.
Many broadcasters around the world enforce local content quotas to ensure their television industries’ survival. But the success of these measures varies widely.
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Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Lecturer in International Political Economy, Newcastle University
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Lecturer in Directing, Producing, Entrepreneurship, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Media, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Theatre, Media and Creative Practice., Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Ghana
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
