MEAA Releases

Latest releases from MEAA


Nine management opens offers for Fairfax ACM group

A union delegation from regional ACM mastheads is convening along with representatives from the Canberra Times, the Illawarra Mercury and the Newcastle Herald to ensure all levels of the business – metro, regional daily and country non-daily – have their views represented as Nine Publishing puts the former Fairfax regional ...

Urgent issues for new ABC leadership

The new chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Ita Buttrose, must address a long agenda of urgent matters in order to protect, maintain and reinvigorate public broadcasting in Australia. MEAA, the union representing Australian journalists, performers and production crew, calls on the new chair and yet-to-be-appointed new managing director to ...

MEAA says defamation judgement confirms need for law overhaul

MEAA, the union for Australian journalists, says today’s decision of the Federal Court in the defamation action brought by Chau Chak Wing against the former Fairfax newspapers demonstrates the urgent need for an overhaul of Australia’s outdated defamation laws. The defence of qualified privilege was rejected by the court. MEAA ...

Government must listen to concerns on encryption legislation – MEAA

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has called on the government to reconsider its proposed encryption legislation to address concerns about the impact on journalists and their sources. MEAA Chief Executive Paul Murphy said the bill should not be allowed to proceed in its current form. “This bill would grant ...

Strong community support to re-open Sydney’s Theatre Royal

Equity President Chloe Dallimore (front left, holding petition) and Evelyn Richardson of Live Performance Australia with MEAA members outside the Theatre Royal in Sydney. Thousands of people have lent their support to the campaign to re-open Sydney’s Theatre Royal ...