MEAA Media Room


Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism

July 11, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance condemns hate speech, including antisemitism, as a threat to democracy, a free media, and equality.

Antisemitism, as a form of racism, should be met with the principle of zero tolerance.

MEAA acknowledges the release of the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism and the Prime Minister’s willingness to tackle this issue.

It is important, however, that proposed ...

Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against ABC

June 25, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes the Federal Court’s finding that journalist Antoinette Lattouf was unlawfully terminated by the ABC.

Today’s result sends a clear message: the ABC Chair and management failed in their obligations to push back against outside influence, racism, and bullying.

MEAA Chief Executive Erin Madeley said the ABC’s leadership had capitulated to political pressure and pro-Israeli lobbyists ...

Mismanagement of our ABC must stop

June 11, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has condemned the latest cuts to secure jobs and diverse voices at the ABC.

MEAA Chief Executive Erin Madeley said mismanagement and cuts to staff and public interest reporting and programming was undermining the ABC’s mandate.

“The ABC is one of Australia’s most important institutions. It needs to be well funded and accessible to all Australians,” ...

ABC management sued for breach of Fair Work Act over the abuse of insecure fixed-term contracts

June 5, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has initiated Federal Court proceedings against the ABC, accusing management of forcing staff into successive fixed-term contracts in breach of the Fair Work Act.

The case, which MEAA is pursuing on behalf of a member employed on a long-running television program, is seeking to confirm that the making of a third contract resulted in a ...

MEAA Submission – Commercial Radio Code of Practice

May 18, 2025 Phill Lappin MediaRoom Submissions

This submission to the Commercial Radio Code of Practice review looks at the need to update the code due to the technological, economic, and cultural shifts that have significantly transformed the radio sector over the last decade, including the development of digital radio, which currently sits outside the code and the introduction of generative AI technologies, which are also currently ...