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Screen Australia's Drama Report recorded a record $2.7 billion in production spend, and the single steepest movement in it was a collapse in children's content.
The first quarter of 2026 saw $310 million in total production activity, down from $378 million in Q1 2025, and the independent sector took the largest hit.

Total production activity hit $2.1 billion and the domestic share shrank to 28 per cent, which is the number nobody put in the headline.