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.
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 ...
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.
MEAA has been contacted by a number of members working in live performance venues that are currently hosting Sydney Festival events
A slump in domestic television drama production over the past year shows the need to maintain local content rules for both free-to-air and subscription TV
