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Redfern Now, Top of the Lake, Upper Middle Bogan casts win 2014 Equity Ensemble Awards!

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Three ensemble television casts have been selected from an impressive field to take out the 2014 Equity Ensemble Awards. It was the performances in the second series of ABC drama Redfern Now, miniseries Top of the Lake and comedy Upper Middle Bogan that most impressed Australian actors. Established by the ...

Actors Equity calls on Abbott Govt not to axe ABC funding

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Actors Equity is calling on the Abbott Government to honour its pre-election promise not to cut ABC funding ...

SPADA and Equity New Zealand reach new actors’ agreement

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SPADA and Equity New Zealand are pleased to announce, after three and half years of negotiations, that agreement has been reached on a standard Individual Performance Agreement and Backend Agreement for use on NZ based and funded film and TV drama programs ...

ALRC’s copyright report seeks to undermine creative workers’ rights

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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union for Australia’s creative professionals, has expressed serious concern over recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission to overhaul Australia’s copyright regime ...

Equity Foundation awards Atlantic School Scholarships to James Fraser and Holly Fraser

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The Equity Foundation is pleased to announce that performers James Fraser, 20, and Holly Fraser, 19, have both been awarded scholarships at the prestigious Atlantic Acting School in New York City ...