4 November 2025
Tuesday 4 November 2025: The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) today welcomed Arts Minister Tony Burke’s announcement that new screen content requirements for streaming services will require major streaming services to make new Australian content. “Amid global uncertainty, the government has said it wants to ensure a future for Australian content,” said AWG CEO Claire Pullen….
27 October 2025
Monday 27 October 2025: The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) welcome the Attorney-General’s announcement that the Australian Government will maintain Australia’s strong copyright framework. The Australian Writers’ Guild is the professional association for Australian screen and stage writers across film, television, theatre, audio and interactive media and has protected and promoted…
2 October 2025
Thursday 2 October 2025: In opening remarks to a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) CEO Claire Pullen joined other creative leaders and Senators in criticising the Productivity Commission for failing to model the economic contribution of creative industries. Australia’s creative workers raised questions over the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report, including whether the Commission is fit to publish…
7 August 2025
Thursday 7 August 2025: Australian creative workers and their royalty collecting societies expressed disappointment at the Productivity Commission’s advocacy for a text and data mining (TDM) exception, a move that would retroactively legalise the theft of Australia’s creative workers’ intellectual property, voices, images, and work, by foreign multi-nationals. The interim report “Harnessing data and digital technology” seeks feedback…
27 August 2025
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has issued a Fact Sheet on writers and superannuation. SPA has argued that production companies are merely purchasing a writer’s intellectual property in a script, and that they are not engaging writers to “perform services” i.e. writing services. We do not consider this argument to be a sound one. The characterisation of writing contracts in this…
