MEAA recovers $100k for Avenue Q
Twelve performers on the satirical musical Avenue Q have finally been paid after MEAA took legal action to recover $114,000 that was owed to them.
Twelve performers on the satirical musical Avenue Q have finally been paid after MEAA took legal action to recover $114,000 that was owed to them.
To submit your entry for the 2015 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism please visit http://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkleys/
Entry is free for MEAA Media members and $295 for non-members.
Work must have been produced during the entry period of September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2015.
Entries close August 31, 2015.
MEAA has written to Fairfax Media to express our extreme disappointment at the announcement that the regional arm of the business, Australian Community Media (ACM) would proceed with its plan to drastically cut editorial jobs at its Illawarra and South Coast newspapers.
Fairfax Media’s Australian Community Media director John Angilley yesterday confirmed that 47 journalists, photographers and commercial staff will lose ...
MEAA condemns the Prime Minister’s announcement today that “there is going to be an urgent government inquiry into the ABC” following the appearance of Zaky Mallah on Q&A last Monday night and the regular rebroadcasting of the program yesterday.
MEAA notes that the Prime Minister is concerned that the ABC gave “a platform to this convicted criminal and terrorist sympathiser”. MEAA ...
Leading Australian actors and crew visited Canberra on Tuesday to deliver a petition to Arts Minister George Brandis urging the government to not axe the visa rules that protect local jobs and stories.
Minister Brandis refused to meet the MEAA delegation to receive the #saveourstories visual petition, despite repeated requests. Instead, actors Geoff Morrell, Nadine Garner, Jay Laga’aia, Dave Nichols (key ...