This submission to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry provides feedback on potential tax reform measures to boost the productivity of Australia’s arts and creative sectors and on the opportunities and challenges for Australia’s arts and creative sectors associated with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
...The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes the announcement by the Federal Government that Australian law will not be watered down to permit free access to Australian creative works.
MEAA Chief Executive Erin Madeley said this was a major win in the campaign to stop AI theft and force big tech to pay up for the theft of creative work happening ...
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance joins with media colleagues in Australia and Timor-Leste to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ‘Balibo Five’.
Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Tony Stewart, Malcolm Rennie, and Brian Peters were killed by Indonesian forces in the village of Balibo on October 16, 1975, after witnessing an incursion.
The New South Wales Coroner subsequently found that the journalists, ...
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) strongly condemns plans by TasTAFE to scrap creative and media courses and sack the highly skilled staff who run them, following news of funding cuts.
If the plan goes ahead, Tasmanians will lose the ability to study visual arts, design, music, screen and media, fashion and textiles — among other courses — through TAFE, ...
This submission relates to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee’s inquiry into the Freedom of Information (FOI) Amendment Bill 2025.
In this submission, MEAA argues that the government’s proposed reforms would result in serious detriment to the public interest. They would make the federal FOI system less accessible, knock out all but the simplest requests, shield more documents from the ...
