Peter McGauran (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Again I stress that I am disappointed that the honourable member for Kingsford Smith has not joined in the general acclaim from the film and arts community as to the government’s reform, in which we are taking the film industry on trust. They have alleged, not to the total conviction of some of us in the government, that their failures over the past few years have been because of financial disincentives and constraints. There are some of us who think that the real problem is in the storytelling. But be that as it may, we are about to find out, because the government has funding now in place for which there are no excuses for Australian filmmakers to hide behind. I am not in the habit of making commitments on behalf of ministers without their express authority. What I do know is that the spirit of the government’s injection of tens of millions of new dollars for the film and television industries would see us maintaining support across the board.

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