IGEA's Submission to the ECRC Inquiry into the Future of Australia's Video Game Development Industry

Key insights

5 takeaways

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The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) submitted seven recommendations to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee’s (ECRC) Inquiry into the Future of Australia’s video game development industry on September 9, 2015, aiming to help the local development community leverage global opportunities and overcome challenges.
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IGEA also made a submission in February 2017 to the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training's Inquiry into Innovation and Creativity: Workforce for the New Economy, focusing on the labor force within Australia's video game development industry.
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In September 2019, IGEA submitted to the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth's Inquiry into supporting Australia’s exports and attracting investments, addressing barriers to growth for Australian businesses.
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IGEA actively conducts research and provides facts on the Australian and New Zealand gaming markets, including 'Australia Plays,' 'Game Development Industry,' 'Consumer Sales,' and 'Power of Play' for Australia, and 'New Zealand Plays' and 'Consumer Sales' for New Zealand.
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IGEA owns and operates key industry events and awards such as Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) and the Australian Games Developer Awards (AGDAs).

Summary

The document is a September 2015 news post from the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) announcing its response to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee's inquiry into the future of Australia's video game development industry. Its core purpose is to publicise IGEA's position: the association has put forward seven recommendations intended to help local developers capitalise on global opportunities while addressing the sector's current challenges. The page itself is largely navigational and promotional, so the substance of those recommendations is not reproduced here; readers are directed to a separate full submission document.

Because the text is a summary announcement rather than the submission itself, it contains no quantitative data, survey results, sample sizes, or specific policy proposals. Its scope is limited to Australia's domestic video game development sector, and it is framed around the inquiry's terms of reference rather than any independent research methodology. The page also surrounds this content with unrelated material, including links to later IGEA submissions, news items, and organisational information, none of which bears directly on the 2015 inquiry.

Taken on its own, the page establishes that IGEA participated formally in the parliamentary inquiry and presented a set of recommendations, but it does not disclose what those recommendations were or what evidence supported them. Any substantive assessment of IGEA's arguments would require consulting the full submission to which the page links.