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Australia’s drama dilemma: how taxpayers foot the bill for content that ends up locked behind paywalls

By Anna Potter, Professor in Digital Media and Cutural Studies, Queensland University of Technology
Amanda Lotz, Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
Marion McCutcheon, Senior Research Fellow, News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra

Commercial TV broadcasters once commissioned around 300 hours of Australian drama each year. Last year, they commissioned just nine hours of new, non-soap drama.

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