Performing Arts

Why the ABC is failing
Former Head of ABC Television Kim Dalton’s Platform Paper argues that the ABC ignores and ultimately betrays its wider responsibilities…

Fifield drops bomb on media playing field
An enquiry into content quotas, the end of the license fee, the abolition of the two out of three rule…

Budget 2017 - ABC, SBS, Screen Australia swept by usual sadness
All the federal bodies providing funds to the production sector are down. But by how much?

Silent master and adored commander presides over key ADG 2017 award
Emma Freeman, Daina Reed, Courtney Gibson, Sarah Moran, Samantha Lang - women as symbols of industrial change.

Kim Dalton: how can we save the ABC from itself?
Unable to create true reform from within, former Head of ABC TV calls for new government mechanisms to ensure ABC…

Victorian budget 2017: numbers = relief for screen sector
The Victorian state budget has removed any lingering anxiety about the fate of industry support through MIFF, and offered ACMI…

Jenni Tosi to leave Film Victoria
Jenni Tosi, who has led Film Victoria through some dreadful years to a stable budget and calmer times, will leave…

What's On - Pork Pie, dining directors, referendum remembered
A conference, a dinner, a commemoration, a breakfast, a bunch of films, two commercial festivals and an explosion of shorts…

What's On - local indies and comedies about making films.
Look carefully and you will find some powerful Australian indy films staking out a strictly limited release. And others that…

Arts professions excluded from skilled visa list
Arts organisations will face limitations on the use of international talent under changes to visa laws.