Urgent action needed to arrest decline of regional journalism; more mergers not the answer

Regional and rural journalists are overworked, underpaid and pessimistic about the future of their careers and the outlets they work for.

MEAA 2022 election results

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has concluded ballots for all union offices. You can find the AEC’s declarations concerning uncontested positions and contested positions here.

Thanks to all the members who put their names forward for consideration.

End of ABC funding freeze won’t bring back lost jobs and programming

Today’s announcement of an $87 million increase in funding to the ABC is a drop in the ocean after more than half a billion dollars of cuts by the Coalition Government since 2014, says the union for Australia’s media workers.

MEAA submission to House of Representatives inquiry into regional newspapers

In this submission to the House of Representatives inquiry into regional Australian newspapers, MEAA says local public interest journalism must be seen as an indispensable part of a community’s civic infrastructure – in all communities.

Regional and rural communities, in particular, are being progressively denied local public interest journalism for the reasons set out in this submission. The tide must be ...

Coronial inquest into the death of Johann Ofner

It is with great sadness that MEAA acknowledges today’s Queensland Coroner’s findings concerning the death of our former member, Johann Ofner, in January 2017.