Australian-made children’s TV all but gone on commercial free-to-air networks

Fall in amount of locally made children's programming attributed to watering down of quota by former Coalition government

• Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast

Locally made children's programming has all but been abandoned by the commercial television networks after the effective abolition of the quota by the Morrison government.

The leading commercial network, Seven, screened just 6.5 hours of children's television last year and none of it was Australian-made. The single program was a live action show from New Zealand called Mystic.

Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning