Head of marketing Kathleen Drumm among victims of Screen Australia cuts
Screen Australia head of marketing Kathleen Drumm will leave the organisation after five years this week, one of the victims of sweeping budget cuts at the organisation.
In an email to colleagues Drumm said it has been “a lot of fun and a great privilege” to have helped “promote Australian talent at home and abroad”.
“Good luck to everyone releasing a film or screening your program on tele ahead of Christmas,” Drumm wrote in her email. “I will be thinking of you and wishing you favourable reviews, ratings and box office.”
Drumm is one of several staff to depart Screen Australia following series of sweeping cuts announced in July as a result of cuts to funding from the Federal Government. Marketing had been identified as one of areas to be culled, while its legal division has also suffered.
Sensible decision under a new CEO. The place was teaming with overpaid bureaucrats swanning around the world in the pointy end of the plane.
But the hotels in Cannes are gonna go broke if this keeps up.
oii harry the market will sort itself out, we need people at the pointy end of the plane, just like we need people putting coal into the fire to make the wheels turnnn….