MEAA Media Room


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 ...

Actors, directors, screen crew encouraged to have their say in film and television inquiry

February 28, 2017 Mark Phillips #MEAACrew #MEAAECS #MEAAEquity MediaRoom Releases

Ensuring local content on digital platforms and updating screen tax incentives are essential for the growth and sustainability of the film and TV industry, says the union representing performers and screen crew.

Journalists, writers, actors and cartoonists call for their refugee colleagues to be resettled in Australia

February 5, 2017 Mark Phillips #bringthemhere #MEAAEquity #MEAAMedia Campaigns MediaRoom Releases

Dozens of journalists, actors, cartoonists and writers have written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urging him to resettle three of their colleagues from Manus Island to Australia.