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MEAA submission to the Senate inquiry into the National Cultural Policy

March 17, 2023 Mark Phillips MediaRoom Submissions

This submission is made by MEAA to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications inquiry into the National Cultural Policy, Revive.

MEAA considers Revive to be a landmark document. It is our nation’s first consolidated cultural policy in a decade. It follows what many in the arts community consider a decade of lost opportunity. The actions proposed across Revive’s five ...

ABC staff postpone planned stoppage

March 6, 2023 Mark Phillips #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Releases

ABC journalists have voted to postpone tomorrow’s stoppage following a new pay offer from management.

ABC staff vote to take industrial action if management doesn’t improve offer

March 1, 2023 Mark Phillips #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Releases

ABC journalists have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action as they push for a fair deal from management.

MEAA to raise defamation, whistleblowers and national security laws in meeting with A-G

February 24, 2023 Mark Phillips #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes the chance to take part in discussions about key issues in our industry – including defamation, whistleblower protection, Freedom of Information and the impact of national security laws on journalism – in tomorrow’s press freedom roundtable hosted by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus in Canberra.

Proposed Amendments to MEAA’s Rules, February 2023

February 21, 2023 Mark Phillips MediaRoom Other statements

MEAA Federal Council considered and approved a range of proposed alterations to the union’s rules at its meeting on 18 February 2023.

Each of the proposed alterations was approved in accordance with MEAA rule 75.

Attached for members’ information are:

a statement to the Fair Work Commission signed by the Federal President, Simon Collins. a marked-up copy of the MEAA rules, with proposed alterations ...