MEAA Media Room


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.

Hollywood blockbusters a vote of confidence in Australian screen crews

October 22, 2015 Web Admin #MEAACrew #MEAAECS Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for film and television technical and production crew, welcomes the announcement that the next instalments of Hollywood blockbusters Thor and Alien will be shot in Australia.

Balibo victims to be honoured with new journalism scholarship

October 16, 2015 Web Admin Releases

On the 40th anniversary of their deaths at the hands of Indonesian troops, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) will commemorate the Balibo Five by establishing a permanent scholarship in their name to develop journalism skills in East Timor.

Journalists’ sources at risk as data retention begins

October 12, 2015 Mike Dobbie Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, has condemned tomorrow’s start of the data retention regime, which will require telecommunications companies to retain the telecommunications data of their customers for a period of two years in order to enable at least 21 governments agencies to access the data in secret. 

Address to the 2015 Melbourne Press Freedom Dinner by MEAA CEO Paul Murphy

September 25, 2015 Lauren Katsikitis Speeches

I’d like to acknowledge, and pay my respects to, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet: the Elders, past and present, of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.