Production sector opposes local content quotas with cartoon campaign
A cartoon of the ghost of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo interviewing Senator Stephen Conroy is part of a new campaign from the production sector to oppose changes to the local content sub-quotas that governs Australian TV stations.
The cartoon is drawn by Crikey’s First Dog on the Moon and sees Skippy grilling Conroy over the amount of American television on Australian screens and what the production sector calls Conroy’s ‘sweeping regressive changes to local content sub-quotas’ to the TV network’s multi-channels.
The campaign called Australian Screens Australian Stories urges citizens wanting to protect Australian stories – through local TV drama, children’s and documentary programming – to mail postcards to their local members of parliament.
Accompanying the cartoon is the text:
“sees Skippy grilling Conroy over the amount of American television on Australian screens”
I wonder if the second of these cartoons will have Conroy grilling Skippy over the amount of Australian TV on American screens? Maybe cartoon Conroy could ask Skippy whether brilliant new drama like Reef Doctors and Mr & Mrs Murder is selling abroad and boosting Australian exports?
No? Didn’t think so somehow.