Australia’s entertainment industry feels the shockwaves of US showbiz strikes

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Hollywood is no longer confined to America — the entertainment industry is a global business, and the current strike action by writers and actors is being felt Down Under.

Picketers outside Disney studios in California, July 20 2023 (Image: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

The still unknowable outcome of the Hollywood strikes — first by the Writers Guild and now by the actors union SAG-AFTRA — will shape two consequential shifts in the global entertainment industry: the streaming shake-up of the past decade and the artificial intelligence revolution of the next.

It’s “Hollywood” only in the most metaphorical sense, with the place standing in for what’s become a globalised industry, with deep roots here in Australia. The strikes’ result will determine not only what sort of industry Australia has, but whether it has much of an industry at all.

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Christopher Warren

Media Correspondent

Christopher Warren is an Australian journalist and writer. He was federal secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance until April 2015, and is a past president of the International Federation of Journalists.

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