AWGACS, AWG and Screenrights agree settlement of dispute
5 November 2018
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AWG Members Take ‘Make it Australian’ to Parliament House
5 July 2018 – The Australian Writers’ Guild visited Canberra last week to urge federal politicians from all parties to support the The delegation first attended an afternoon tea with the Labor caucus in Parliament House hosted by Labor MP Tony Burke. An informal panel where the caucus heard from actor Deborah Mailman, director Gillian Armstrong,…
Continue readingBig names call for action to protect Australia’s screen culture
26 March 2018
Continue reading“Far out, brussels sprout!”
28 February 2018 – On 22 January 2018, The Australian published an article from the incoming CEO of Free TV Australia Bridget Fair, who likened Australian children’s content on commercial television to the brussels sprouts of a child’s dinner. This is yet another example of Australian commercial broadcasters’ self-serving efforts to claw back the already derisory amount of…
Continue readingMake It Australian campaign takes its fight to Canberra
17 October 2017 – Today, AWG will join with some of the giants of Australian film and TV to descend upon Parliament House in Canberra to directly lobby politicians to support the industry’s future and the Make It Australian campaign. Representing AWG, writer Katherine Thomson and writer-actor-director Leah Purcell will join actors Bryan Brown, Sigrid Thornton and…
Continue readingProductivity Commission recommendations could cripple Australia’s creative industries
Recommendations by the Federal Government’s Productivity Commission to cut copyright protection in Australia would have a devastating impact on the nation’s screenwriters and other authors .Jacqueline Elaine, Executive Director of the Australian Writers’ Guild said the draft recommendations – that include slashing the length of time copyright protects an author’s work from 70 years to…
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