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Local arts and film jilted in favour of foreign streaming majors Foxtel, Netflix, and Nine’s Stan
Another kick in the guts for the local screen industry as Nine Entertainment, chaired by Liberal Party stalwart Peter Costello, is exempted from local content rules and foreign streaming giants such as Netflix are structured to skirt them too. As for the Coalition’s supposed rescue package for small players it is simply Kafkaesque and designed to fail. Elizabeth Minter reports.