Jobs Summit must address wages in the creative industries

This week’s Jobs and Skills Summit must address the low pay and job insecurity of workers in the arts, entertainment and media industries

Nine pockets high profit while offering sub-inflation pay

Bumper profits reported today by Nine Publishing are a slap in the face for journalists at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, and WA Today who are seeking a fair pay rise from the company.

Cultural policy review must address poverty wages of arts workers

A new national cultural policy must aim to lift the wages of arts workers above poverty levels and reinvest in the sector after years of federal government neglect.

MEAA submission to the National Cultural Policy Review

MEAA strongly supports the development of a national cultural policy and endorses the five pillars.

Assange extradition a dangerous assault on international journalism

UPDATE, June 21: MEAA Media Federal President Karen Percy has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging them to press the United States to drop espionage charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Read the letter here.

The UK Government’s decision to uphold the application by the US Department of Justice to extradite Australian publisher Julian ...