Resolutions passed by MEAA members at Fairfax Sydney, May 10, 2016

Resolution passed by staff at Fairfax Metros during a stopwork meeting in Sydney on May 10, 2016:

We, the staff of the Sydney and Melbourne editorial news floors want to recognise the decades of experience that are walking out the door. We are disgusted that the company did not take all the steps it could to minimise these job losses, and has broken hearts ...

Adele Ferguson – on protecting whistleblowers

MEAA’s 2016 Press Freedom Australia report

MEAA’s report into the state of press freedom in Australia in 2016: Criminalising the Truth, Suppressing the Right to Know is available to download here.

Budget 2016: Arts and public broadcasting funding crisis continues as government maintains damaging course

Tonight’s federal Budget has again left the arts community and public broadcasting shortchanged with no extra funding for the arts and the prospect of further cuts to jobs and services at the ABC, says the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

MEAA calls on politicians to commit to press freedom

Today, UNESCO World Press Freedom Day, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, calls on Australia’s politicians to commit to the principles of press freedom and the public’s right to know.