{"id":77372,"date":"2021-03-14T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T09:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=271992"},"modified":"2021-03-14T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T09:32:10","slug":"local-arts-and-film-jilted-in-favour-of-foreign-streaming-majors-foxtel-netflix-and-nines-stan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/14\/local-arts-and-film-jilted-in-favour-of-foreign-streaming-majors-foxtel-netflix-and-nines-stan\/","title":{"rendered":"Local arts and film jilted in favour of foreign streaming majors Foxtel, Netflix, and Nine\u2019s Stan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Local-screen-industry-on-the-chopping-block.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Local screen industry on the chopping block\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Local-screen-industry-on-the-chopping-block.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Local-screen-industry-on-the-chopping-block-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>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\u2019s supposed rescue package for small players it is simply Kafkaesque and designed to fail. Elizabeth Minter\u00a0reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/local-arts-and-film-jilted-in-favour-of-foreign-streaming-majors-foxtel-netflix-and-nines-stan\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77438,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77372\/revisions\/77438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}