The Australian music industry has threatened to take “all actions available” against the commercial radio networks in a dramatic escalation to of a long-running stoush over how much artists are paid for their music.

Annabelle Herd, the chief executive of the non-profit Phonographic Performance Company of Australia, which represents the record labels and recording artists, accused the peak body for Australia’s 260 commercial radio stations of “resort[ing] to a misinformation and smear campaign to push its agenda”.