20 March 2020 – At a time when productions such as The Voice, Clickbait and Australia’s Got Talent, along with a number of Australian scripted dramas are shutting down in order to comply with public health warnings, organisations representing Australia’s independent producers, directors, writers, casts and crews today wrote to the Government seeking urgent support for…
Continue reading12 January 2020 – Industrial contracts and rates available to AWG members have been updated for 2020, with rates increased with CPI (as of 1 January 2020). You can access the updated rates via the Member Portal here. Contract templates and other industrial resources can be accessed here. Please note: You must be logged in to the AWG website and have a current membership to…
Continue reading12 December 2019 – The Australian Writers’ Guild has joined fellow screen industry guilds in calling out the federal government’s abrupt decision to fold the Department of Communications and the Arts into a new super ministry, omitting the Arts, as an insult to the industry. In an article in IF Magazine, we state that ‘the removal of ‘Arts’ from the…
Continue reading6 December 2019 – The Australian Writers’ Guild is deeply concerned that the federal government has announced a restructure, abolishing the current Department of Communications and the Arts and rolling it into the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s justification for the public service overhaul is to ‘bust bureaucratic congestion’….
Continue reading16 September 2019 – Leading Australian actors, directors, crew, writers and producers are in Canberra today and tomorrow in a united push to convince Parliament to introduce local content requirements for booming digital viewing platforms. With a growing consensus that Australian content rules must keep up with the growing appetite for on-demand and streaming media, a…
Continue reading5 May 2019 – The Make it Australian campaign – made up of Screen Producers Australia (SPA), Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG), and the Australian Directors Guild (ADG) – has welcomed Labor’s announcement that, if elected, a Shorten Labor Government will modernise the policy and regulatory settings that support Australian and children’s…
Continue reading14 April 2019 – The Morrison Government’s decision to extend tax offsets to streaming video services is another missed opportunity to require those platforms to invest in Australian content, say members of the Make It Australian campaign. Screen Producers Australia (SPA), Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG), and the Australian Directors…
Continue reading4 April 2019 – Our industry feels like it’s in a constant state of flux as the media landscape continues to change, with added ferocity over the last two decades as screening models make the leap from free-to-air television to online streaming services. The Senate Inquiry into Australian Content and Broadcast, Radio and Streaming Services has sought…
Continue reading3 April 2019 – The Australian Writers’ Guild and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) commend the European Parliament on their vote last week to adopt the EU Copyright Directive, a move that will see the rights of authors, artists and composers to receive proportionate remuneration for the use of their work defined under European…
Continue reading10 March 2019 – CJZ addresses drama budgets, shortage of writers and original concepts, in which CJZ claimed that high production and development costs and the lack of Australian writing talent were making it more and more difficult to create Australian drama. ‘There are work practices which make it impossible to make drama at the price…
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