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High Court decision is a vindication for award-winning journalism
Yesterday’s decision of the High Court of Australia ends Ben Roberts-Smith's attempt to pursue defamation claims against MEAA members Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters and their colleagues at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. The Gold Walkley Award-winning journalism is once again fully vindicated. Roberts-Smith's reputation must be measured against ...
Axing of Meanjin does not add up
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is dismayed by a decision by Melbourne University Publishing to axe one of the nation’s longest-running literary journals, Meanjin ...
Big Tech agreement to ‘Stop Creative Theft’ a win for media and creative workers
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) welcomes the acknowledgment by technology companies of the rights of Australia’s media and creative workforce and willingness to pay for the content they use to develop their highly profitable AI models. MEAA chief executive Erin Madely said the union was looking forward to ...
ABC journalists concerned about social media policy overreach
Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance journalists at the ABC are deeply committed to upholding public trust through providing ethical, fair and accurate journalism and storytelling to the public. Every day, they face attack from external stakeholders. While the social media policy provides some clarity around what employees are deemed “high ...
Stop killing journalists: Australian media figures take a stand as death toll continues to rise
Australian journalists have united in support of their colleagues in Gaza, releasing a landmark video paying tribute to the 179 Palestinian media workers so far killed by the Israeli military in the conflict. More than 100 members of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) who work as journalists for ...
Government must resist the demands of Big Tech on AI and support Australian workers and interests
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance is urging the federal government to continue to pursue comprehensive economy-wide laws to regulate the unfettered rollout of artificial intelligence, which poses an existential threat to Australia’s media and creative industries. MEAA is both disappointed and concerned by media reports suggesting Labor is considering ...
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance condemns the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, ...
Productivity Commission’s shortsighted recommendations are a blueprint for theft of nation’s creative and cultural assets
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance is dismayed by recommendations proposed by the Productivity Commission today, including its resistance to much-needed legislation and regulation that would protect Australia’s creative and media workforce from AI theft. The Productivity Commission’s interim report, ‘Harnessing data and digital technology’, is a blueprint for the wholesale ...
