Image: Dave Gibson in formal mode at his investiture with his ONZM for services to the film and television industry, in September 2012.
Australians are grimly aware of the tendency to create less but larger agencies, and cram disparate bits into the same standardised box. Creating Screen Australia was a Herculean effort, the Abbott government wants to push the specialised National Film and Sound Archives into a generalised cultural agency back end, and right wing pundits keep trying to mash SBS and the ABC into the one broadcaster.
