AWGACS was established in 1996 as the copyright collecting society for screenwriters from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Notices for members A reminder for members to sign the new membership agreement: New membership agreement Copyright Collecting Societies Code of Conduct — Call for Submissions 2026 AWGACS subscribes to the Copyright Collecting Societies Code of Conduct, with compliance independently reviewed each year. Interested parties are invited to make submissions to the Code Reviewer regarding the period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. To make a submission, contact the Code Review Secretariat at secretariat@copyrightcodeofconduct.org.au . Submissions close 31 July 2026 . To read the full notice, click here . WHAT IS AWGACS? AWGACS was established in 1996 as the copyright collecting society for screen authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Since then, we have collected over $33 million dollars for members and authors from around the world. Join now to protect your right to secondary royalties - it's free! Join AWGACS Now Unable to contact list NEWS COPYRIGHT COLLECTING SOCIETIES CODE OF CONDUCT - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2026 Compliance by participating collecting societies with the Code’s standards of conduct is the subject of an independent annual review. May 21 Education giants seek midnight raid on creator rights Joint statement from AMPAL, APRA AMCOS, ARIA PPCA, Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors, Australian Writers’ Guild, AWG Authorship Collecting Society, Copyright Agency and Screenrights. The Copyright Advisory Group (CAG) is seeking concessions that go significantly further than what the Australian Government consulted introduced into Parliament. Friday 20 March 2026 – Australian authors, songwriters, recording artists, visual artists, photographers Mar 19 More Posts

FAQs | Resources & Forms FAQs What are secondary royalties? Secondary royalties arise from the secondary usage of your audiovisual work. In Australia, secondary royalties are generated from government use, educational use and retransmission. In New Zealand, you may receive royalties for educational usage. Many more types of secondary usages exist around the world. Will I receive money every year? The nature of secondary royalties is unpredictable but if we have distributable royalties for you, we will let you know. How do you know what I’ve written? Our extensive database is kept up to date by our staff but we also rely on our members letting us know when they've written something new. Can my royalties go to my agent? We will transfer your royalties into your nominated bank account. How much does it cost to join AWGACS? It is free to join AWGACS. Resources & Forms New membership agreement AWGACS Writing Credits Form

Protect your fair share - it's free to join AWGACS! JOIN AWGACS Protect your fair share - i t's free to join AWGACS! Become an AWGACS member JOIN AWG The Australian Writers’ Guild continues to fight against unfair treatment of writers both for the writers’ sake and in support of a healthy industry. We are negotiating new industrial terms and conditions and have developed a new range of model contracts and minimum recommended terms and conditions. Our service for members ups the ante on contract negotiations and adherence. Solidarity is fundamental to winning these battles. Support the guild that works hard for you and your fellow writers, and call on our services to fight for what you are worth. In joining with other writing professionals, you will be contributing to the health of Australian performance writing culture and all its communities. Without the support and advice of the Guild over the past 60 years, many successful writers would never have had the chance to develop the careers they now cherish. Australia’s most prominent writers are long-serving members of the Australian Writers’ Guild. Become an AWG member JOIN NZWG NZWG was founded in 1976 and is the professional membership association and registered trade union of Aotearoa New Zealand script writers. NZWG is committed to working in a way that adheres to the spirit and principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. NZWG is a member of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG), Council of Trade Unions (CTU NZ) and WeCreate. New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) screenwriters cannot be categorised as one homogenous group; they are communities of talented workers who live all over Aotearoa. They are a mix of ages, backgrounds, and experience levels – from students, emerging through to experienced career professionals whose living is made on the creation of ideas inked onto pages. These screenwriters’ ideas are formed in many ways, from pure imagination, to lived experiences and inspiration from many other sources. The primary objective of NZWG is to establish and enhance the minimum working conditions and compensation rates for writers. Over the decades, NZWG has achieved significant milestones in supporting writers. In the early 1980s, NZWG played a pivotal role in initiating and negotiating the Theatre Writers agreement. In the early 2000s, NZWG successfully negotiated the NZWG Model Contract with the Screen Production and Development Association (SPADA). Become a NZWG member

PRIVACY POLICY The Australian Writers’ Guild Ltd (AWG) and the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society Ltd (AWGACS) take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy sets out how AWG and AWGACS protect and handle your personal information through adopting the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time, but you’ll find the current version below in a question and answer format. What is personal information? When referring to ‘personal information’, we mean information which identifies you as an individual or from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Your name or pseudonym, your postal address or email address and/or your phone number are examples of personal information. What is sensitive information? Sensitive information is a subset of personal information. The Privacy Act imposes special obligations where sensitive information is collected, used and disclosed. We collect some forms of sensitive information, including details about membership of professional or trade associations (including your membership of other collecting societies and guilds) and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status. AWG will not collect sensitive information about you unless you consent (we take your provision of the information to be consent to its collection), and the information is reasonably necessary for one or more of our functions or activities. If AWG holds any sensitive personal information about you, that information will only be used and disclosed by AWG for the purpose that it was provided by you. What personal information does the AWG collect and hold? We only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for us to perform one or more of our functions or activities. Depending upon the circumstances you may provide to us, and we may collect, information such as, but not limited to: your name; your pseudonym; your gender; your date of birth; your contact information; your marital status; your employer and job title; your educational qualifications; your contractual information; your bank account details for electronic funds transfer payments; your lists of works Some personal information you may provide to us, and we may collect, is considered sensitive information. We only collect sensitive information where we have received your consent to that information being collected, used, disclosed and stored in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This information includes: details of other professional memberships and associations (including other collecting society and guilds); your nationality and Australian residency status; your political opinions; your political party membership (if any); your racial or ethnic origin; your Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status; your sexual orientation; any disabilities, illnesses or injuries you may have; and/or any other health information. How does the AWG collect and hold information? Wherever possible, we collect personal information about you directly from you. For example, when you submit a membership registration form, enter a competition, fill out a survey, register to access the AWG’s Pathways website or nominate yourself for a Pathways program. AWG may also collect your personal information from third parties in accordance with the requirements of the APPs, including from: other rightsholders in a work, including co-writers. This personal information is restricted to information which will assist AWG in member recruitment, such as contact information; the public domain including social media, industry directories, industry guides, and the Internet; similar organisations in other countries; and funding agencies, such as Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Screen NSW, among others. In common with many websites, when you read, browse or download information from our website, we may also collect information such as the date and time of your visit to the website, the pages accessed, and any information downloaded. This information is used for statistical, reporting and website administration, security, maintenance and improvement purposes. Like many websites, our websites may use ‘cookies’ from time to time. Cookies are small text files that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser. Cookies may also be used to record information such as the date, time or duration of your visit, or the pages accessed, for website administration, security, statistical and maintenance purposes. Irrespective of whether personal information is stored electronically or in hard copy form, we take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Our websites provide facilities for the secure transmission of information across the internet. However, users should be aware that there are inherent risks transmitting information across the internet. We keep your hard-copy or electronic records on our premises and systems or offsite using trusted third parties. Our security safeguards include: training and reminding our staff of their obligations regarding your information; when we send information overseas, or use third parties that handle or store data, we ensure that appropriate data handling and security arrangements are in place; and where practical, we keep information only for as long as required. How do we use personal information? Where we collect and hold personal information, it is collected and held for our business purposes, to fulfil our legal obligations and to keep members informed of our activities and services. Our business purposes are set out in detail on our website . We may also use and disclose your personal information in the following circumstances: to manage memberships and access to services provided by us such as industrial advice and script assessment and registration services; to overseas and local collecting societies in relation to the collection and distribution of international and domestic royalties for the use of your works; to persons authorised by you, such as your agent or manager; to government bodies and agencies, including state and national funding bodies; to third party specialists we engage to provide us with legal, administrative, financial, insurance, research, marketing or other services; to support our advocacy projects on behalf of members and in industry studies carried out by us or on our behalf; to administer the Pathways program, including assessing and processing nominations and applications and liaising with members and industry about projects and writers; and in relation to other secondary purposes you might reasonably expect us to use your personal information for in connection with the primary purposes outlined above. This is not an exhaustive list. We may also use and disclose your personal information for any other purpose to which you have consented, which you would reasonably expect the personal information to be used or disclosed and in other ways subject to the requirements of the APPs. Do we send your personal information overseas? We may disclose your personal information to overseas collecting societies that collect and distribute royalties and that have a reciprocal agreement with us or with which we have an agreement to share information. We have partnerships with 29 overseas collecting societies that are listed here on our website. Information is disclosed to these overseas recipients for the purpose of collecting payments for the use of members’ works in these countries. How can I access or correct my personal information? To make a request to access or correct any personal information we hold about you, please contact our Privacy Officer via the details provided below. If you would like to access your personal information, please provide us with as much detail as you can about the information you seek to help us retrieve it. We will not charge you for making a request to access or correct your personal information. However, a reasonable fee may be charged for providing access to your personal information, where permitted by law. In certain circumstances, we may not be required by law to provide you with access or to correct your personal information. If that is the case, we will give you our reasons for that decision. We take reasonable steps to make sure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Questions and complaints If you have any questions or concerns about AWG’s handling of your personal information, please contact us at privacy@awg.com.au or by mail: Privacy Officer Australian Writers’ Guild Level 4, 70 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 If you have a complaint relating to a breach of the APPs by AWG, you should contact our Privacy Officer at the details provided above. AWG will investigate your complaint and respond to you within a reasonable time in accordance with our legal obligations. AWG will take any necessary corrective actions promptly. Further information For more information about your right to privacy please visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s website at www.oaic.gov.au . Last updated May 2024

Partner Collecting Societies Governance & Policy Annual General Meeting (AGM) About AWGACS | How it works | Who can join | Board & staff ABOUT AWGACS Established in 1996, the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) is a not-for-profit collecting society for screenwriters. AWGACS collects and distributes international and domestic royalties for Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand writers. AWGACS collects royalties from the following schemes under the Copyright Act: Educational copying and communication royalties (under Part IVA): Educational institutions copying programs and make them available or to store online. Government copying royalties (under section 183): Copying from radio, television and the internet for government use. Retransmission royalties in Australia (under Part VC): Retransmitting free to air broadcasts on subscription services. AWGACS has agreements with over 30 collecting societies from around the world to collect royalties for members. About AWGACS HOW IT WORKS AWGACS collects secondary royalties from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and countries across the globe to distribute to its members. Secondary royalties (also known as statutory royalties) are a complex revenue source governed by laws, conventions and agreements that differ between countries and collecting societies. Although each secondary royalty payment can be tiny, they can add up to a substantial payment to writers. It would be impossible for most writers to track down all the secondary royalties from so many sources and countries by themselves, which is why societies such as AWGACS to do this on their behalf. Secondary royalties are separate to residuals (or primary royalties), which are what producers are required to pay writers based on what they have negotiated in their contracts. AWGACS operates under the obligatory governance and financial standards required by law, including annual reports to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). We voluntarily submit ourselves to the Code of Conduct for Collecting Societies and provide annual reports to the Hon. Kevin Lindgren QC for reviews and audits. We are a full member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), the world’s leading network of authors’ collecting societies, and abide by its professional rules and resolutions with annual compliance surveys and audits. AWGACS is a member of Writers & Directors Worldwide (W&DW). WDW campaigns around the world for fair remuneration for authors. How It Works WHO CAN JOIN Membership is open to: Any screenwriter from Australia or New Zealand (although, we are open to all nationalities), A full member of the AWG, An editor who is also an ‘author’, Any other person whom the Board considers fit to be a member, The beneficiary or executor of the estate of a person referred to above. AWGACS collects for: Feature films, Short films, Television series and serials, Miniseries, Telemovies, Documentary television and film. Who Can Join BOARD Sam Meikle Chairperson Sam Meikle is a highly experienced writer and creator with hundreds of hours of produced credits across a broad range of television dramas, comedies, animation and web series. He has worked extensively in development for many of Australia’s leading production houses, and written and interviewed for documentary works. His short films have screened at festivals around the world and he’s been engaged to develop multiple feature film projects. Sam holds a Masters in screenwriting from the AFTRS (2000), he’s a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights’ Studio (2000), he's been nominated for three AACTA Awards and 12 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, winning four. Most recently, Sam was a writer, an Executive Producer and co-showrunner of Wakefield for the ABC, BBC Studios and Showtime, and a co-creator, head writer, and Executive Producer of MaveriX for the ABC and Netflix. Kodie Bedford AWG-appointed Director Kodie was born in Western Australia, with strong family ties to the East Kimberley. Working mostly in television, Kodie’s credits include Mystery Road (ABC), Squinters (ABC) and Grace Beside Me (NITV/ABC). She made her directorial debut with a short horror film, Scout. Kodie received the Balnaves Fellowship for 2019 to develop her own play with Belvoir Theatre, Cursed! which was staged for the Belvoir Theatre 2020 season. Most recently, Kodie co-wrote and script produced ABC Iview series All My Friends are Racist which was nominated for Best Short Form Comedy for the 2021 AACTA awards and she also script produced and wrote for Warwick Thornton’s vampire show Firebite for AMC+. Shanti Gudgeon AWG-appointed Director Shanti Gudgeon has written for Foxtel comedy/drama series SLiDE for Playmaker Media, Conspiracy 365 for Circa Films, Dance Academy for Werner Productions and ABC3, Trip for Biscuits for ABC3, and Nowhere Boys for Matchbox Pictures and ABC3. Nowhere Boys won the AACTA Award for Best Children’s Series and the LOGIE Award for Best Children’s Series, while Trip for Biscuits has been nominated for an SPA Award for Best Children’s Television Productions. Most recently, Shanti wrote for the second season of Wolf Creek. Shanti’s screenplay, Scratches + Cuts, was selected for Film Victoria’s New Feature Writers Scheme and it was also nominated for an IF Award for best unproduced feature screenplay. Her feature script, Under The Black Flag, was selected by the Producer’s Guild of America for their International Co-Production Showcase. Shanti in development on the feature All I Know of the Devil, supported through Screen Australia. Briar Grace-Smith ONZM Membership-elected Director Briar Grace-Smith ONZM is a filmmaker and one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers of award-winning plays, screenplays, short fiction and television scripts. Her most recent film, Cousins, an adaptation of the acclaimed New Zealand novel by Patricia Grace, was released in New Zealand in 2022 to unwavering critical and audience acclaim. Briar is an inaugural recipient of the Arts Foundation Laureate Award and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for her contribution to theatre, television and screen. Claire Pullen Group CEO AWG & AWGACS Claire Pullen is the Group CEO of the Australian Writers’ Guild and the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS). She is a high-impact policy innovator and former media and communications director with over 15 years of experience in NGOs, working extensively to improve the rights of individuals and communities. Claire led the community campaign to decriminalise abortion in NSW and her policy paper list on firefighter occupational cancer now sits in legislation in all states and territories in Australia. She has won awards for her pioneering feminist and representation work, and has appeared in courts and tribunals throughout Australia. Claire has worked as a freelance journalist, has owned two microbusinesses and has represented the legal and disability communities as a Board member. Claire holds a Master’s degree in Labour Law and Relations from the University of Sydney, a first-class Honours degree and several other qualifications. A skilled lobbyist and high-impact campaign strategist, she has now turned her love of Aussie content towards the fight to improve rights and remuneration for Australian screen and stage writers. Staff And Leadership STAFF Claire Pullen Group CEO, AWG & AWGACS Molly Ulm Director, Industry and Operations Vanessa Tanner-Sousa Distribution Manager Bec Bagnat Research & Royalty Officer Karen Johnston Bookkeeper Phuong Tran Communications Officer Staff And Leadership

GOVERNANCE & POLICY Find governance & policy documents below. AWGACS Complaints Handling Procedure AWGACS Distribution Policy - October 2021 AWG & AWGACS AI Position Paper - September 2023 AWGACS Constitution - 2024 Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies 2025 Page 1 of 1

CONTACT AWGACS To contact AWGACS: Level 4, 70 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW Australia 2000 (02) 9319 0339 awgacs@awg.com.au AWGACS operates Monday to Friday from 9am-5pm. To contact the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG): Level 4, 70 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW Australia 2000 (02) 9319 0339 admin@awg.com.au AWG operates Monday to Friday from 9am-5pm. To contact the New Zealand Writers’ Guild (NZWG): Click Studios - 525 Rosebank Road, Avondale, Auckland, 1026 PO Box 47886, Ponsonby, Auckland 1144 guildhq@nzwg.org.nz (09) 360 1408

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) Relevant documents for the 2025 Annual General Meeting can be found below. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the 2025 AGM, please contact awgacs@awg.com.au 2025 AWGACS Financial Statements

SISTER SOCIETIES AWGACS collects your royalties from over 34 territories around the world. Societies and territories AGADU, Asociation General de Autores del Uruguay, Uruguay AIPA, Slovenia AKKA/LAA, Autortiesību un Komunicēšanās Konsultāciju Aģentūra / Latvijas Autoru Apvienība, Latvia Albautor, Agjencia Shqiptare e Autorëve, Albania ALCS, The Authors' Licencing and Collecting Society Ltd, United Kingdom Argentores, Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina, Argentina ATN, Sociedad de Autores Nacionales de Teatro, Cine y Audiovisuales, Chile AUPO CINEMA, Всеукраїнська громадська організація «СIНEMA» (ВГО «СIНEMA»), Ukraine DAMA, Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales, Spain DHFA, Društvo hrvatskih filmskih autora, Croatia DILIA , Divadelní, Literární, Audiovizuální Agentura, z.s., Czech Republic EAU , Eesti Autorite Ühing, Estonia FILMJUS , Filmszerzők és Előállítók Szerzői Jogvédő Egyesülete, Hungary GCA, Georgian Copyright Association, Georgia KOPIOSTO , Kopiosto, Finland LATGA, Asociacija LATGA, Lithuania LIRA, Literaire Rechten Auteurs, Netherlands LITA , LITA, autorská spoločnosť, Slovakia LITERAR-MECHANA , LITERAR-MECHANA Wahrnehmungsgesellschaft für Urheberrechte GesmbH, Austria NORWACO , Norwaco, Norway REDES , Red Colombiana de Escritores Audiovisuales, Colombia SABAM, Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij, Belgium SACD , Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, France SCAM, La, Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, France Screenrights, Audio-Visual copyright society limited, Australia & New Zealand SGAE , Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, Spain SIAE , Societa Italiana Degli Autori Ed Editori, Italy SOGEM , Sociedad General de Escritores de México, Mexico SPA , Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, Portugal SSA , Societe Suisse des Autores, Switzerland Suissimage , Swiss Authors' Rights Cooperative for Audiovisual Works, Switzerland VG Wort , Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort, Germany WGJ, Writers Guild of Japan, Japan ZAPA , Stowarzyszenie Filmowcow Polskich – Zwiazek Autorow I Producentow Audiowizualnych, Poland

UNABLE TO CONTACT LIST AWGACS has attempted to contact the following writers (and beneficiaries or executors of the estates of deceased writers) on this list. If you are on this list, please join AWGACS here or get in touch with us via awgacs@awg.com.au or 02 9319 0339. If you recognise a co-writer, colleague, friend, family member, or if you are an agent of writer on this list, please let them know we may have royalties to distribute to them, or contact staff directly with an email address, postal address or phone number so we can get in touch. We want you to have what is yours, join AWGACS (for free!) here . FIRST NAME LAST NAME Shane Abbess Jane Adcroft Nicole Anthony Dave Armstrong Kirby Atkins Rob Baard Bill Baer Fiona Banks Rhiannon Bannenberg Belinda Barr Matthew Bates Quinn Berentson Peter Beveridge Celia Boden Karl Brandstater Rene Bransby Stephen Campbell Roger Vaughan Carr Cassandra Carter Anna Cater Steve Christiansen Santo Cilauro Pete Circuitt George Clark Brad Cone Nick Coyle Sarah Crawford Stephen Cross Paul Currie Lance Curtis Mary Dagmar-Davies Molly Daniels Mark Dapin Jennifer Deayton Richard Dennison Irena Dol Matt Drummond Geoffrey Dutton Damian Estall Ree Evans Scott Everingham Mark Everton Alexander Feggans Mirrah Foulkes Bob Franklin Eva Friedman Rhett Gable Charlie Garber Johanna Garvin Craig Gaudion Tom Gleisner Gordon Glenn Stuart Goodman Andrew Goodone Eleanor Grant Marion Grasby Oriel Gray Stacy Gregg Neil Grimstone Shaun Hall Beth Harvey Julian Harvey Matthew Hawkins Adrian Hayward Ray Hennessy Anika Herbert Victoria Hill Bill Hinzman Karina Holden Matthew Holmes Wayne Hope Eleanor Horn Toni Houston Melissa Hoyer Barry Humphries Daniel Hunter Sophie Hyde David Ingham Stephanie Johnson Tony Johnston Krishna Jones Kelly Joseph Joel Kane Stephen Kearney Joe Kelly Geoff Kelso Andrew Kennedy Jane Kennedy John Kim Michelle Klinger Steve Knapman Dan Knight Les Knight Daniel Lane Michael Lawrence Neil Lawrence Ray Lawrence Paul Leyden Roseanne Liang Adam Liaw