MEAA submission on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Advocacy) Bill 2015

This submission is made to the Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee inquiry into the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Advocacy) Bill 2015.

The Bill seeks to amend the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 to ensure the ABC responsibilities in regional and rural areas are articulated in its Charter; that the corporation establish a new Regional and Rural Advisory ...

Address by MEAA President Simon Collins to 2016 Federal Council, Sydney

MEAA President Simon Collins addressing the 2016 Federal Council in Sydney.

I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners, past and present, of the land on which this meeting is taking place, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.

Welcome colleagues to the 2016 meeting of the Federal Council of the Media, Entertainment & Arts ...

MEAA condemns APN’s sale of regional media

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, condemns APN News & Media for abandoning regional media and the communities it serves.

Tread carefully on public broadcasting merger

Any moves to merge Australia’s national broadcasters with the purpose of finding savings or “efficiencies” must be treated with extreme caution

Asia-Pacific the deadliest region for journalists globally

Joint International Federation of Journalists-Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance media release:

Today the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Australian affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) launched the IFJ 25th Killed List report, Journalists and Media Staff Killed 1990-2015: 25 years of contribution towards Safer Journalism at a special Asia-Pacific launch event in Sydney. The IFJ ...