21/10/2019 - 21/10/2019

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Maurice Blackburn Event Space, Level 21, 380 La Trobe Street, Melbourne

MEAA and Gender Equity Victoria began working together on strategies to counter online gender-based abuse last year and after consulting with women journalists and media workers, have developed pragmatic strategies for media organisations to prevent and respond to gender-based abuse on their platforms. Join us as we launch the new report, Don’t Read the Comments: […]

12/11/2019 - 12/11/2019

7:00pm - 9:30pm

RMIT University Storey Hall 336–348 Swanston Street Melbourne, VIC 3000

The launch of the Victorian chapter of Media Diversity Australia will include brilliant speakers, delicious Middle Eastern food and an essential conversation about media representation. Media Diversity Australia (MDA) is a national not-for-profit run by journalists and media professionals. Australia is culturally and linguistically diverse, we believe Australia’s media should be too. Since the national […]

15/11/2019 - 15/11/2019

6:00pm - 8:30pm

University of Technology Sydney, 1 Quay St, Haymarket NSW 2007

Walkley Award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Quentin Dempster will interview Jennifer Robinson, counsel to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Quentin will ask the hard-hitting questions to get to the heart of the tough issues around WikiLeaks and Assange, free speech and press freedom – and Assange’s almost decade long legal struggle on Day of the Imprisoned […]

27/11/2019 - 29/11/2019

1:00pm - 10:30pm

Alice Springs

CONVERGE is the annual national conference for the First Nations media industry. In 2019 CONVERGE returns to Mpartntwe, bringing media organisations from remote, regional and urban locations together on Arrernte country. CONVERGE is co-hosted by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) who will welcome delegates to Mparntwe/Alice Springs with a special event on Wednesday evening, […]