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Treat Facebook and Google like media companies

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Digital giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should be regulated like other media companies and forced to contribute a percentage of their revenue towards public interest journalism, says the union for Australian media workers. In a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platforms inquiry, the Media, ...

MEAA submission to the ACCC inquiry into digital platforms

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On April 10, 2018, MEAA provided this submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platforms inquiry.  ...

MEAA condemns shooting of Gaza journalist

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, strongly condemns the targeting and shooting of journalists during protests in the southern Gaza strip on Friday ...

Big names call for action to protect Australia’s screen culture

Dozens of Australia’s best-known and most successful actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and production crew – including 15 Oscar winners – have penned an open letter calling on the nation’s parliamentarians to protect the local screen industry and to act now to ensure it thrives into the future ...

Joint statement: Shared commitment to cultural change in the theatre sector

We pay our respects to the First Nations people of this land that we’re meeting on. Gathering on Wurundjeri land within the Kulin nation, the inaugural Safe Theatres Forum took place last weekend bringing together representatives from all areas of the not for profit spectrum of the performing arts industry.  ...

Dora’s been saved but local industry is still in peril

Once again, the Queensland government has had to step into to secure a new feature film for Australia, further highlighting how internationally uncompetitive the federal incentives for overseas film and television productions are ...

Theatre companies and performers combine to tackle harassment

Representatives of Australia’s leading theatre companies will come together with performing artists this weekend for an historic forum to make their workplaces safe from sexual harassment and bullying ...

New espionage laws must exempt public interest journalism

The union for Australian journalists will today deliver to a hearing of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security a petition of almost 9000 signatures opposing proposed new national security legislation. The petition is addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General Christian Porter and calls on the Federal ...
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