Australian drama: taxpayers pay for content locked behind paywalls

Watching half of the Australian TV drama hours broadcast in 2024 required a streaming subscription.
Image: Jens Kreuter/ Unsplash.

By Anna Potter, Queensland University of Technology; Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology, and Marion McCutcheon, University of Canberra

What’s more – watching half of the Australian TV drama hours broadcast in 2024 required a streaming subscription. Watching all of them required seven different subscriptions.

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