AustLit

A letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald by Kenneth Cook published on the same day that the film version of his musical play, Stockade premiered and in reply to an interview with the NSW Chief Secretary Mr Willis published in the same newspaper the day before. Cook refers to the fact that the NSW government was enforcing its legislation requiring licenses to be issue before a film could be shown (which effectively put a stranglehold on low-budget filmmakers) while it also refused to enforce the film quota legislation in place to supposedly protect the Australian film industry.