New funding model needed to revive opera sector
MEAA has lodged submissions to the National Opera Review calling for a new funding model for Opera. The Review paper outlines the impact of declining funds, including reduced artistic opportunities, fewer positions for principals, choristers, musicians and technicians as well as reduced job security. MEAA calls for a funding model ...
MEAA Annual Report 2014-2015
Pursuant to the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act of 2009, the elected officers of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance present their annual report, together with financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2015 ...
Submission to the Victorian inquiry into the labour hire industry and insecure work
MEAA is concerned by the increasing trend towards contingent work in all areas of the industries it represents, and the fact that it is now taking root in media organisations where work has historically been permanent in nature ...
11 million more reasons to be a member of MEAA
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance distributed more than $11 million to its members in 2014-15 as recovered wages, financial claims and performers’ residuals ...
Arts funding changes a good first step – but more needed
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes today’s partial reversal by the Turnbull Government of the cuts to the Australia Council’s budget and the willingness of the new Arts Minister Mitch Fifield to consult with the sector ...
Funding cuts are jeopardising livelihoods in the arts
Ahead of a national roundtable on the future of the industry, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is warning funding pressures are jeopardising opportunities to make a career in the live performing sector. ...
Joint letter on SA surveillance devices
Joint media organisations letter to South Australian Attorney-General John Rau on the Surveillance Devices Bill. ...
Vote for Adele Ferguson
MEAA’s National Media Section committee has nominated long-standing MEAA member Adele Ferguson – book author, Gold Walkley winner and senior Fairfax journalist – for the position of author director on the Copyright Agency board ...
