17 October 2017 – Today, AWG will join with some of the giants of Australian film and TV to descend upon Parliament House in Canberra to directly lobby politicians to support the industry’s future and the Make It Australian campaign. Representing AWG, writer Katherine Thomson and writer-actor-director Leah Purcell will join actors Bryan Brown, Sigrid Thornton and…
Recommendations by the Federal Government’s Productivity Commission to cut copyright protection in Australia would have a devastating impact on the nation’s screenwriters and other authors .Jacqueline Elaine, Executive Director of the Australian Writers’ Guild said the draft recommendations – that include slashing the length of time copyright protects an author’s work from 70 years to…
