Governments can no longer stand on the sidelines but must step in to support independent journalism to preserve democracy, the union for Australian media workers has urged in its submission to the Senate inquiry into the future of public interest journalism. The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance’s submission to the ...

MEAA’s submission to the Senate Select Committee inquiry into the future of public interest journalism ...

Leading Australian actors and screen technicians have today appeared before the Parliamentary inquiry into the future of the film and TV industry to urge greater government support and leadership in the sector. MEAA Equity members Adele Perovic, Noni Hazlehurst and Justine Clarke and MEAA crew member Dan Oliver joined MEAA ...

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is deeply concerned by the concentration of surveillance powers in a new super “Home Affairs” ministry without any adequate external oversight. MEAA believes the corralling of several government agencies with poor records for observing and ...

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is alarmed by the government push to force tech companies to break encrypted communications. The announcement seems to show scant understanding or consideration of how this might be achieved, or any concern for the potential ...

Potentially more than 20 people who worked for nothing on the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in March this year have won back pay following intervention by MEAA ...

MEAA is concerned that Seven West’s division Pacific Magazines has announced 11 redundancies and flagged the outsourcing of sub-editing to Pagemasters ...

MEAA is holding a teleconference Q&A session today for members employed at Network Ten. This follows today's announcement that representatives of KordaMentha have been appointed voluntary administrators to Ten Network Holdings Limited. MEAA members across the industry stand in solidarity with Network Ten staff. MEAA Media director Katelin McInerney said: ...