MEAA Media Room


Restoration of Australia Council funding welcomed but more needed for opera

March 19, 2017 Mark Phillips #freethearts #MEAAECS #MEAAEquity MediaRoom Releases

The axing of the Catalyst Fund run out of the Arts Minister’s office is a long overdue return to independent and peer-assessed arts funding, but has come too late to save dozens of small arts organisations and projects.

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance – the union and advocate for Australian performing arts workers – welcomes the announcement ...

MEAA submission to review of Victoria’s Open Courts Act and suppression orders

March 17, 2017 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Submissions

MEAA submission to the Victorian Government review by former Justice Vincent into the Open Courts Act 2013 examining the use of suppression orders in the Victorian legal system.

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Selectively banning media is an attack on press freedom

March 14, 2017 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Releases

The exclusion of an ABC news team from One Nation’s election night function in Perth on Saturday is unacceptable and must not be repeated, says the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists.

MEAA chief executive officer Paul Murphy said it was essential for public interest journalism that all accredited media outlets be given ...

Media union demands answers on how ABC production job cuts will not impact on news and current affairs

March 8, 2017 Mark Phillips #HandsOffOurABC #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Releases

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie must immediately explain how job cuts in key technical support roles will not impact on the ABC’s news services, says the union representing ABC journalists.

Asio confirms it is spying on journalists

March 2, 2017 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom Featured MediaRoom News Other statements Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is concerned that Asio is using Journalist Information Warrants to secretly trawl through the metadata of journalists and media organisations in the hunt for their confidential sources.

On Tuesday, under questioning yesterday from Senator Nick Xenophon in an Estimates hearing, Asio director-general Duncan Lewis said warrants ...