The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance is concerned at the rise in online abuse and disinformation on the social media platform Twitter ...

Last night’s Federal Budget has made an important down payment towards a stronger future for the arts and media sectors, says the union for Australia’s cultural workforce ...

On October 20, 2022, MEAA's Deputy Chief Exectutive, Adam Portelli, addressed the public hearing of the Joint Select Committee Inquiry into the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2022. MEAA was speaking in support of the Australia's Right to Know (ARTK) ...

Australia's Right to Know coalition of media organisations (ARTK) submission to the Joint Select Committee on National Anti-Corruption legislation (the Committee) in relation to the proposed National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 (Cth) (NACC Bill). Submitted October 14, 2022 ...

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and professional association for Australia’s journalists, condemns the widespread arrests of journalists in Iran. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 40 journalists had been arrested up to October 10. The arrests have been carried out amid protests over ...

MEAA members at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times and WA Today have accepted an improved offer in their long running enterprise bargaining negotiations with Nine Publishing which owns these mastheads ...

Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission investigations will now be included in the state’s recent shield laws after months of lobbying by MEAA. Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman said the government will draft new laws to “provide protection of journalists’ confidential sources in the context of CCC investigations and hearings”. MEAA has ...

This week’s Jobs and Skills Summit must address the low pay and job insecurity of workers in the arts, entertainment and media industries ...