Symphony orchestras are valued as an important part of our culture, and most Australians would support maintaining or increasing government funding for them, according to a new national survey commissioned by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance.
The online survey of 800 people found strong backing for public funding of orchestras with 83% of people saying funding should ...
The Australia’s Right to Know coalition of media organisations (of which MEAA is a member) submission to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry into the Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019.
The Australia’s Right to Know coalition of media organisations (of which MEAA is a member) submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s inquiry into the impact of the exercise of law enforcement and intelligence powers on the freedom of the press.
The final report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platforms inquiry has laid out in stark terms the threat posed to public interest journalism by rise of Google, Facebook and other similar businesses, says the union for Australian journalists and media workers.
MEAA has written to the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and to the state’s Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath urging that they intervene to ensure the charges and bail conditions against a French TV crew be dropped. The crew were arrested yesterday while reporting on a protest at the Abbot Point terminal.
The president of the MEAA Media section Marcus Strom said: “Journalists should ...
