Job Flight

A collegue spoke to me this morning about the problems faced by the film and television industries in Australia after the signing of the Free Trade Agreement with America recently. At the public screening of a film that she has been working on in Sydney it waas discussed that a lot of the engineering and production behind films that would have normally been done here in Australia is now being carried out in China. To exacerbate matters further much of the content of film and television shown in Australia now comes from America. Studios there are outsourcing production facilties in China, and the damage is being felt here by the local industry.

I think this will become a familiar cry across the developed world not only in the entertainment industries but ALL industries. We need to be clever about this but, as noted elsewhere, people are quite rightly scared of this development...how to be clever - that is the question.

And what to do if funding is being withdrawn from educational institutions across the country. This is a complex of issues that I want to try to work through...hopefully getting words down will give insight through reflection.