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MEAA Submission – Inquiry into the State of Live Music in New South Wales
Australia’s music industry is in crisis. While large international conglomerates like Spotify and Live Nation extract substantial profits from the Australian live and recorded music industries, most musicians earn below minimum wage. Underpayment, wage theft, insecurity, and harassment are widespread in the industry. At the same time, emerging technologies – ...
ABC staff send clear message to management: quality news starts with quality jobs
Staff at the ABC are set to vote on potential strike action as part of their protracted campaign for job security, fair pay and improved conditions. Last week, ABC management declined to table an offer that enables staff to produce the quality news and current affairs that Australians rely on. Instead, the latest offer includes cuts to job security, no improvements to stagnant pay band progression, and ...
MEAA Submission to the Treasury Laws Amendment – Feb 2026
MEAA provides this submission in response to the government’s proposed Treasury Laws Amendment (Business Registries Stabilisation and Uplift) Bill 2025. MEAA strongly opposes the proposed changes that would restrict public access to director’s personal details through ASIC’s Company Register, including addresses and dates of birth. These changes represent a serious ...
Victorian unionists join to fight Carnival Cruises ‘extreme exploitation’
Victorian union members have today backed the MUA campaign to end the extreme exploitation on Carnival Cruise ships based in Australia and will meet the Carnival Adventure when it arrives in Port Melbourne for the Australian Open tomorrow (Jan 21). Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Organiser Shane Reside said “Carnival ...
Union members condemn attacks on cartoonist
MEAA members condemn the vicious and specious attacks on cartoonist member Cathy Wilcox, and call on Nine Entertainment to stand by its Charter of Editorial Independence and support staff who face online harassment. Wilcox’s cartoon “Grass roots” is a comment on the political motivations and power dynamics behind the push ...
Media union denounces proposed legislation as a threat to freedom and democracy
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union representing workers in Australia's media and creative industries, calls on the Federal Parliament to reject the Federal Government's new proposed legislation, the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. The proposal undermines core principles of press freedom and freedom of artistic ...
SBS staff stand up to hostile management and reject inadequate enterprise offer
MEAA members at SBS have rejected an enterprise agreement offer proposed by management that failed to include a fair pay rise or adequate protections around the use of artificial intelligence — their first no vote in more than a decade. The vote follows ABC’s rejection of a similarly unfair offer ...
MEAA expresses shock and sadness at Bondi terror tragedy
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance wishes to express its deep shock and sadness at the tragic attack that unfolded in Bondi last night. Our thoughts are with everyone affected — the families who have lost loved ones, those who were injured, the Jewish community, and the broader Bondi community, ...
