MEAA strongly welcomes the proposed changes to the News Media Bargaining Incentive. Under the proposed legislation, large digital platforms will face financial penalties for failure to make adequate commercial deals with news publishers, regardless of whether they carry news content. In the case that digital platforms do not make commercial ...

MEAA submission to the Committee on Communications, the Arts, and Sport inquiry into Arts and Cultural Philanthropy. If governments are serious about sustaining a vibrant, inclusive and democratically grounded cultural life, the solution lies not in deepening philanthropic dependence through tax incentives, but in renewing a commitment to public support ...

MEAA endorses the submission of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and makes the following supplementary remarks. MEAA supported the key reforms contained in the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Act 2023 and the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Act 2024 (collectively the Closing Loopholes ...

MEAA submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Workplace Relations, Skills and Training Inquiry into the Operation and Adequacy of the National Employment Standards (NES). Many creative and media workers are engaged as independent contractors rather than employees. Consequently, they are denied the protection of a minimum ...

Australia’s music industry is in crisis. While large international conglomerates like Spotify and Live Nation extract substantial profits from the Australian live and recorded music industries, most musicians earn below minimum wage. Underpayment, wage theft, insecurity, and harassment are widespread in the industry. At the same time, emerging technologies – ...