Article Abstract
Vol 5 No 4 - December 2000

Protecting Australian culture in the 21st century: television content regulation in a globalising world
Simon Fitzpatrick, BA, LLB (Hons) (Sydney)

For forty years, a key element of Australia's cultural policy has been the requirement that a certain proportion of television broadcast time be reserved for Australian produced programmes. This policy instrument has been very successful in raising the position of Australian cultural products. More recently, however, processes of globalisation have brought the value and efficacy of such measures into question. As a result of the globalisation of media, markets and cultural goods, the problem which now confronts Australia is whether broadcasting regulation can continue to help foster a sense of national cultural identity. If it cannot, the question becomes whether alternatives can be employed to maintain the policy objective of protecting Australian culture. This article addresses the social, legal and international aspects of these issues, and seeks to further debate in relation to the development of new means for ensuring the production of Australian content.

 

 

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