Twelve performers on the satirical musical Avenue Q have finally been paid after MEAA took legal action to recover $114,000 that was owed to them.
The performers turned to their union after the money was frozen during a legal dispute between the show’s producer and his ex-employer.
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, the union and industry advocate for media and arts professionals, welcomes the commitment by the federal opposition to restore funding to the Australia Council that was removed in this year’s Budget.
A new report about the ABC has reinforced concerns that the national broadcaster is struggling to fill gaps left by cuts to local commercial media, says the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
MEAA letter to the Attorney-General’s Department’s electronic surveillance policy branch regarding MEAA’s concerns with the “Public Interest Advocate” proposals under the “Journalist Information Warrant” scheme amendments to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access Act 1979.
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, is delighted that Walkley Award-winner and former senior editor of The Age Alan Morison and journalist Chutima Sidasathian have been cleared of criminal defamation charges in Phuket today.
