Opinions & Analysis

What the arts can learn from Black Lives Matter
To really change the arts, we need to change arts leadership. Travis de Vries thinks we should make bigger systemic…

TV has changed, so must the way we support local content
One of the four regulatory approaches to television content is a new Australian Production Fund. Here is an argument in…

Bringing it all Back Home: a Cinephile's reflections in lockdown
Strictly confined in a small Spanish village, Adrian Martin compiles an eclectic virus playlist, discovers Zoom, and argues for the…

Regional media get COVID lifeline but ABC, SBS remain in peril
The federal government has announced a package to help regional media through the coronavirus crisis. But our national broadcasters have…

Why Gladys needs to channel her inner Jacinda, as Arts Minister
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian recently took over the portfolio of Arts Minister with the resignation of Don Harwin, but does…

Screen Australia/ACMA options document sets up battle over TV changes
Bushwhacked by the virus, caught up in the fight about commercial TV quotas, the government releases the Options Paper about…

Survival and Creativity: A Paramedic's Perspective
Working on the COVID-19 frontline as a first responder, the director of 'Jirga' offers hope to other storytellers facing their…

Poll Results: Top priorities for government funding
We asked readers what their top priorities were to funding our way through COVID-19 and beyond. Here are the results.

Your internet getting the stutters? Here is why
Yes the net is under pressure but it is holding out, according to Monash scientists.

'Wild Butterfly' shows the human cost of treating addiction as clickbait
Who deserves medical care? A young mum? An addict? A person who took drugs after a liver transplant? Nicole Lee…