Some people on the screen honours list are a tad interested in taking the glorious out of this vision of our Wide Brown Land. Image: Come unto these yellow sands’, from a watercolour by W. Bustard, 1927, courtesy of the State Library of Queensland (Flickr Commons)
This year’s Australia Day Honours announcement is thin on the ground for screen industry people – a mere nine out of 830. It helps to be on commercial television, but current involvement with the national broadcasters has not turned out to be enticing. If you are in the production sector, it seems you don’t exist.
