The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is concerned at a government proposal to amend the Privacy Act that would make it an offence to “re-identify” government data sets.
MEAA believes such a move would undermine legitimate research, scrutiny and security testing of anonymised data.
MEAA CEO Paul Murphy said: “Journalists should be able ...
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is disappointed at the decision of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to allow the sale of News Corp Australia’s Sunday Times and PerthNow to Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media (SWM), owner of The West Australian.
As MEAA’s WA Media section outlined in its submission ...
Independent freelance racing photographers can continue photographing race meetings.
Several Victorian freelance photographers have now been successful in being able to continue to earn an income as independent photographers during the remainder of the 2015-16 racing season
The win comes after the photographers secured the backing of MEAA and a broad range of racing industry stakeholders.
After a lengthy negotiation period, Racing Victoria was forced to allow ...
MEAA is disappointed that Australian film production crew have lost the opportunity to work on international feature Tomb Raider, which is now set to film in South Africa with a scheduled release in March 2018. The production has reportedly relocated after the federal government failed to confirm an increase to the film location offset to 30% in time to bring ...
MEAA has written to Finance Minister Senator Mathias Cormann to express concerns over possible press freedom concerns that may arise over the Government’s intention top put the ASIC Registry database out to tender.
