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The key to success is simple - the right budget to match possible returns. Antony I. Ginnane wonders where that gets you.

Backs against the wall as the fight to defend the Austrailan content regulations gets very ugly.

The current media usage stats reveals one really interesting evolution - people over seventy are changing their viewing habits and quickly.

The annual Deloitte review of media consumption is an equal opportunity scarer. This time, the audience is taking revenge.

We are betting the commercial FTA networks are learning that their assault on kids' TV is a bad mistake. Here is just one example.

The commercial FTA channels are now in the open as the stranglers of the Magic Pudding of kids' TV. Will they listen to the alternatives? Not so far...

We are not content producers, we are creative entrepreneurs, and The Dressmaker proves the point says Sue Maslin.

Determined to transform the tough combo of business and arts, David Court and co open their own business school.

The Hive program which combines practicing artists and filmmakers and funds the result has returned from the bureaucratic grave. There is life in dark times.

Talent Camp requires a different approach to industry partnerships, and allows us to ask a basic question: why are we trying to engineer diversity?

The master survey of the whole sector from the ABS is a fascinating mix of fortunes, which basically shows that the industry is hanging on despite difficult times.

Senate Estimates misses good questions, diverts into minority party bizzaro, and pays homage to Antiques Roadshow.

The frog has finally jumped out of the boiling pot and the growing crisis in kids' TV has gone public. The Greens are leading the charge.

An enquiry into content quotas, the end of the license fee, the abolition of the two out of three rule - it all adds up to the Saturday Shock as the budget looms.

Unable to create true reform from within, former Head of ABC TV calls for new government mechanisms to ensure ABC accountability to fundamental cultural policy.

The Adelaide Film Festival pulls another rabbit out of its synergistic hat with Hybrid World Adelaide, and a commitment to finance films for both a 2017 and 2018 festival.

A discussion between generations of women tells a 42 year story of the fight for gender equality in the Australian screen sector.

The short film was once the golden key to success but Screen Australia's approach has changed enormously. In disrupted times, is this a tragedy or an opportunity?

After the Ghost Times, when it hardly had a board at all, Screen Australia now has the full functioning thing. Not likely to dance on the boardroom table, however.

The annual speech from Screen Australia at AIDC is a chance to reflect on both the business and the state of the community.