This report charts how Australian children's television is navigating a profound cultural and industrial crisis. The sector tasked with producing valuable local screen content is experiencing systemic market failure and contraction. The report delivers an evidence-based policy and industry analysis. It exposes key structural vulnerabilities in the current childrenʼs screen sector.

This report explores viewer expectations for television (TV) content and the community understanding of the existing safeguards – particularly for online TV content. It highlights that a large majority of Australian adults want rules to ensure that content meets community expectations. A majority also support consistent rules across all free-to-air broadcast TV, streaming and on-demand...

This report outlines findings from a study conducted with Australian children aged 7-9 to determine how they use and find content on streaming platforms, their levels of technical fluency with these platforms, and whether they gravitate towards, are able to find, and are culturally literate with Australian content on these platforms. It found that Australian...

The anti-siphoning scheme — set out in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 — prevents subscription television broadcasters from acquiring the right to televise an event on the anti-siphoning list until a free-to-air television broadcaster has acquired a right. The Albanese Government committed to undertake a review of the anti-siphoning scheme in the context of the...

To mark the centenary of the BBC’s formation, the British Academy held a roundtable discussion in December 2022 examining the role, achievements and future of public service media in the United Kingdom. This paper summarises the main points discussed at the roundtable, and hopefully prompts and provokes further thought on the evolving role of public...