Why it’s time to end the policy limbo threatening Australian children’s TV
Australian children’s television consistently punches above its weight on the international stage, but remains in a policy limbo.
11 Sep 2018
Anna Potter
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A still from the award-winning Australian’s TV program, First Day. Image via www.abc.net.au.
Two Australian children’s TV programs, First Day and What’s It Like To Experience a Disability?, won prestigious Prix Jeunesse awards in May. Both were commissoned by the ABC’s children’s channel ABC ME. Both remind us that Australian children’s television consistently punches above its weight on the international stage.
In 2015 Anna Potter was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for $A370,000 for her project entitled 'International Transformation in Children's Television 2013–2018'. The comprehensive transnational project will map the shape and scale of rapidly evolving production territories and markets for children's television opened up by media globalisation, and their economic and cultural impact on television made for the child audience.
Anna is a member of the Arts Research in Creative Humanities (ARCH) research cluster at the University of the Sunshine Coast and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.
