Bridget Fair, the incoming CEO of Free TV, has written an op-ed in The Australian this morning 23rd Jan, calling for children’s quotas to be abolished.
Added to this there are currently rumours circulating that the government is seriously considering this.
The Australian article is HERE (A subscription to the newspaper is necessary)
If you have not yet made contact with your local member to ensure that they know about the important role children’s television content creation plays in…
keeping Australian kids in-tune with Australian culture during the years in which they are easily influenced, promoting Australian stories, tourism, humour and attitudes worldwide, employing a enormously diverse array of designers particularly in the animation industries and in training young content creators and giving them their first job in the highly competitive world of television content creation…
…please consider doing so HERE.