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 paper summarises issues raised during public consultation on future funding and governance for the national broadcasters, along with the government response. It considers how best to support the stability and independence of the national broadcasters while guarding against political interference.

This report examines how best to provide regional media with the resources it needs to produce quality public interest journalism, and, with that journalism, to establish links to metropolitan media, so that all Australians have a sense of what the significant issues facing regional dwellers are and how they can best be tackled by policymakers.

This review was announced following public discussion and comments about racist behaviour at the ABC and how the organisation responds to acts of racism from within and outside the organisation. The review has made 15 recommendations to improve the ABC’s systems and processes. The ABC commissioned the Review in response to calls for an independent...

This report summarises the findings of a four-year study of Australia’s broadcasting and production sectors and the challenges internationalisation and digital technologies pose for national screen industries and Australian stories. The authors identify a long period of policy-making prioritising industry interests over those of the Australian community as a key threat to the creation of...