The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is calling on ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie to outline her strategy for the broadcaster following today’s announced budget cuts, job losses and major programming changes at ABC Radio National (RN).
The following remarks were made by Carolyn Dunbar, MEAA Victoria & Tasmania regional director, at farewell event for editorial staff of the Weekly Review on their last day before redundancy:
MEAA has called on News Corp Australia to confirm that there will be no forced redundancies as part of its latest round of cost savings measures. Yesterday the company announced it would find $40 million in savings and said that there would also be job losses as part of the cost cutting.
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance — the union representing journalists and other editorial staff at the ABC — welcomes the finalisation of bargaining at the national broadcaster following an overwhelming vote this week in favour a new collective agreement.
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes the public release of the National Opera Review and the recognition that extra funding is needed to rescue a sector of the arts that is in crisis.
