MEAA Media Room


Submission to the NSW Government Cultural Tax Reform consultation

August 20, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Submissions

MEAA welcomes the NSW Government’s cultural tax reform consultation. These measures are much needed to improve taxation settings and address endemic funding shortfalls impacting the arts and cultural sector.

For much of the last 20 years, funding for arts and culture in Australia has been in deficit. The sector has been subject to unpredictable and inconsistent political commitments, with only fleeting ...

Stop killing journalists: Australian media figures take a stand as death toll continues to rise

August 14, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Releases

Australian journalists have united in support of their colleagues in Gaza, releasing a landmark video paying tribute to the 179 Palestinian media workers so far killed by the Israeli military in the conflict.

More than 100 members of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) who work as journalists for a wide range of outlets appear in the video, reading the ...

Government must resist the demands of Big Tech on AI and support Australian workers and interests

August 12, 2025 Phill Lappin #stopAItheft MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance is urging the federal government to continue to pursue comprehensive economy-wide laws to regulate the unfettered rollout of artificial intelligence, which poses an existential threat to Australia’s media and creative industries.

MEAA is both disappointed and concerned by media reports suggesting Labor is considering veering away from new laws that would help mitigate AI’s potential ...

MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths

August 11, 2025 Phill Lappin #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance condemns the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend

Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa were killed on Sunday when Israel ...

Productivity Commission’s shortsighted recommendations are a blueprint for theft of nation’s creative and cultural assets

August 6, 2025 Phill Lappin #stopAItheft MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance is dismayed by recommendations proposed by the Productivity Commission today, including its resistance to much-needed legislation and regulation that would protect Australia’s creative and media workforce from AI theft.

The Productivity Commission’s interim report, ‘Harnessing data and digital technology’, is a blueprint for the wholesale theft of Australia’s art, media, and cultural heritage that will do ...