https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp By Teah Jack 10H en-us 2018-05-24 07:00:30 UTC 2026-03-24 15:31:50 UTC hello@padlet.com jac0095 https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp/wish/263253752 Australian television has been around since 1929, and has made many content laws over the years. These conditions apply to locally produced drama, Australian content and children's programming just to name a few. 
Today we face a huge crisis of which we aren't getting enough local content written to the broadcasters, even though the content is expressed to encourage film and television in Australia. The purpose of having our own television programs was to share culture and what we do as a nation in Australia. At the moment Australian television producers are not making enough profit from what they have put into their film or TV show. 
Referring to the Australian Stories textbook in chapter 5 (page 135) it states that "Australian television drama is over A$600 000, while many Australian dramas cost well over A$1 million per hour to produce". Obviously from this outrageous scandal, we need to start supporting our country and help them out of their crisis. 
Some regulations to help this are the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA) are in charge of commercial free-to-air television. This includes programming channels between 6am to Midnight to ensure that content is safe for Australian viewers. The Australian content Standard (ACS) in in control of the Australian content shown in advertising. These two work hand in hand because the ACS regulates the amount of each genre you are watching and distributes it evenly. this includes documentary, drama, and children's programs making sure that they all have licenses to broadcast. ]]> 2018-05-24 07:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp/wish/263253752 jac0095 https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp/wish/263604870 To create films in Australian media there needs to be lots of funding involved. When creating films the cost seems to add up, and it ends up costing millions of dollars. This is mostly because they have to have a lot of people on set that serve different purposes, some examples of this are Costume Stylists, Hair and Make-Up, Producers, Directors, Actors, Actresses, Camera and Filming rew just to name a few! The Companies shown in the 2010 statistics show that their highest funding was foreign investors.This was good news for the television industry because they get to claim tax rebates ( meaning that they get refund their tax) so that they can put more money into making their stories. 
The tax incentive allows Australian content to have access and pay less tax if they follow certain conditions. 
As facts and statistics and from page 134 of the provided textbook ]]> 2018-05-25 11:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp/wish/263604870 jac0095 https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp/wish/263614149 The following social groups include Cultural Diversity, Disabilities, the LGBTQI community and what Screen Australia is supposedly doing to improve equality in all races, genders, and peoples preferred sexual preferences. Although Australia is a VERY multicultural society, in the early film and television it reflected a white and British-Austraian economy. From studies shown in the Heinemann Media third edition page 148 it shows the population of Anglo-Celtic people was 67% of the population, 12% were European, 17% were Non-Europeans, and 3% were Indigenous. Now, looking over to the cultural races shown on TV Drama there was 82% Anglo-Celtic, 6% European, 7% Non-European, and 5% Indigenous. I don't know about you, but from this information it doesn't seem quite equally distributed between each race.
Since Australia is a multicultural country we should include each other despite out gender, colour, culture, disabilities and sexual preferences after all we're all human and we each have feelings. I believe that if we set our appearance aside we can make Australians film and TV represent our current multicultural country. 
The real question is...Is Screen Australia doing anything to stop this discrimination? From my research I've come across a website (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/new-directions/gender-matters) by Screen Australia that they have put in place saying that they've put 5 million dollars into addressing gender imbalance. From scrolling around on their website that also have a whole section celebrating Indigenous screen stories. 
Although they have addressed both gender imbalance and indigenous Australian's it would be good to also support people who live life with a disability. Many people with disabilities (18.3% in Australia) are incapable of walking and most rely on TV and drama to keep them entertained on a daily basis. How would you feel if you look up to the film industry and would like to be a part of it when you can't even see anyone with a disability on there? I feel that it is very discouraging for lots of people with the ability to feel good about themselves for once and be able to achieve their dreams just like everyone else. 
On a lighter note, I have seen a lot of improvements in the LGBTQI community being shown on Australian TV. Some shows that support this are Angry Boys, Aussie Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Crownies, House Husbands and many more. We should encourage the TV and film industry when they're making a step in the right direction to make Australia and equal Country.  ]]> 2018-05-25 12:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jac0095/g09h4smvalwp/wish/263614149