Resource Library

December 2025.

April 2023. Seeing Ourselves 2 examines the diversity of main characters in 361 scripted Australian TV and online dramas broadcast between 2016 and 2021, how this compares to the Australian population, and what has changed since the previous Seeing Ourselves report.

April 2020. In response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry, the Australian Government requested that Screen Australia and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) co-author an options paper considering how to best support Australian stories on our screens in a modern, multi-platform environment.

December 2017. New trends in Australian online video use. Who’s watching what, how they’re doing it, and why?

November 2016. The most significant, comprehensive assessment of the economic, social and cultural worth of our nation’s screen sector.

August 2016. Whose stories are our TV dramas exploring? Screen Australia has benchmarked current levels of diversity in Australian TV drama and explore the challenges and opportunities involved in making TV drama more broadly representative of Australian society.

Who is telling Australian stories? And whose stories are being told? Are women adequately represented in key creative roles and positions of influence in the Australian screen industry? If not, why not, and what can we do about it?

July 2015. Challenges and opportunities for local features in today’s distribution terrain. Key data, trends and analysis plus case studies of some new release strategies.