On August 30, MEAA Equity Director Michelle Rae wrote to Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley and Arts Minister Danny Pearson seeking a meeting to discuss the plight of arts workers unable to return home to Victoria from NSW because of border closures.
...Victorian and South Australian arts workers who travelled to New South Wales for various productions before lockdown have lost their jobs and are now unable to return to their home state.
MEAA, together with the International Federation of Journalists, has called on the Australian Government to take urgent action to provide humanitarian visas to Afghan journalists and media workers.
Many of Australia’s leading journalists have come together to call for fellow citizen and journalist Cheng Lei to be released from detention by the Chinese Government and be allowed to return home to her family.
MEAA strongly supports increasing the Producer Offset to 30% for screen productions that are not feature films. Similarly, MEAA supports the removal of the 65 commercial hour cap qualifying Australian production expenditure for a series and seasons of a series. MEAA do not support the remainder of the measures in Schedule 1 of the Bill. It is MEAA’s submission that ...
