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Actors Equity calls on Abbott Govt not to axe ABC funding

April 17, 2014 Releases

Actors Equity is calling on the Abbott Government to honour its pre-election promise not to cut ABC funding ...

MEAA submission on intercepts

February 27, 2014 Submissions

MEAA submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee into the comprehensive revision of the Telecommunications (Interceptions and Access) Act 1979. ...

SPADA and Equity New Zealand reach new actors’ agreement

February 20, 2014 Releases

SPADA and Equity New Zealand are pleased to announce, after three and half years of negotiations, that agreement has been reached on a standard Individual Performance Agreement and Backend Agreement for use on NZ based and funded film and TV drama programs ...

Joint letter to SA LRI

February 17, 2014 Submissions

Joint media organisations' letter to the South Australian Law Reform Institute on a statutory cause of action for invasion of privacy ...

ALRC’s copyright report seeks to undermine creative workers’ rights

February 17, 2014 Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union for Australia’s creative professionals, has expressed serious concern over recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission to overhaul Australia’s copyright regime ...

MEAA letter to SA LRI

February 14, 2014 Submissions

MEAA letter to the South Australian Law Reform Institute regarding a statutory cause of action for invasion of privacy ...

Equity Foundation awards Atlantic School Scholarships to James Fraser and Holly Fraser

February 12, 2014 Releases

The Equity Foundation is pleased to announce that performers James Fraser, 20, and Holly Fraser, 19, have both been awarded scholarships at the prestigious Atlantic Acting School in New York City ...