MEAA Media Room


Arts funding changes a good first step – but more needed

November 20, 2015 Web Admin #freethearts #MEAAECS #MEAAEquity #MEAAMusic #MEAASOMA Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes today’s partial reversal by the Turnbull Government of the cuts to the Australia Council’s budget and the willingness of the new Arts Minister Mitch Fifield to consult with the sector.

Funding cuts are jeopardising livelihoods in the arts

November 5, 2015 Web Admin #MEAAEquity Releases

Ahead of a national roundtable on the future of the industry, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is warning funding pressures are jeopardising opportunities to make a career in the live performing sector. 

Joint letter on SA surveillance devices

October 28, 2015 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia Submissions

Joint media organisations letter to South Australian Attorney-General John Rau on the Surveillance Devices Bill. 

Vote for Adele Ferguson

October 28, 2015 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia Featured News Releases

MEAA’s National Media Section committee has nominated long-standing MEAA member Adele Ferguson – book author, Gold Walkley winner and senior Fairfax journalist – for the position of author director on the Copyright Agency board.

MEAA demands rethink on asylum seeker secrecy

October 23, 2015 Web Admin #pressfreedom News Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is concerned that the public’s right to know is being eroded by the veil of secrecy that surrounds asylum seeker policy.