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...

The Australian Government reiterated its election commitment to introduce requirements for Australian screen content on subscription video on demand (SVOD) services. This Impact Analysis considers two options to address investment in Australian content. A regulatory model requiring SVODs to invest at least 10% of their total program expenditure in Australia is considered to be the...

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...

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...