Should there be a local screen content quota?

Should local screen content quotas exist?

As it stands, 55 per cent of what free-to-air stations broadcast between 6am and 12am must be local.

The question comes after confirmation that long-running Aussie soap Neighbours would be axed after 37 years.

Executive Director of the Australian Writers Guild, Claire Pullen, told Tom Elliott quotas are a way of supporting the local industry.

“I guess what I would want to see is a market setting where the production companies and free-to-air broadcasters are encouraged, and I guess supported, to take market risks and try new things in Australian content that might work,” she said on 3AW Drive.

“Because when that has been tried, and the ABC is a really good example – like Bluey has been optioned by Disney.

“So that’s now going to be shown all over the world, and that’s because we supported that content to be made.”

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