QUT’s research not the full picture of Australian TV production
Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, Paul Fletcher, reflects on a recent QUT report and says Australia’s local TV content is better than ever.
A QUT report released earlier last month, The Australian Television Drama Index report, on changes to the number of hours of Australian television drama produced each year, brought predictable claims the local screen production sector is in decline.
There is no crisis, and there is no decline. Instead, there is unprecedented opportunity for the Australian production sector.
It is hard to take the numbers in the QUT report very seriously given that it simply excludes two long running series, Neighbours and Home and Away, from its headline figures.
