The recovery of Australia’s arts and entertainment industry from the coronavirus shutdown will require more than token government support, the Senate inquiry into the government response to COVID-19 will be told today.
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the trade union and professional association for Australia’s journalists, says the guilty verdict in editor Maria Ressa’s cyber libel case is an outrageous assault on press freedom in the Philippines.
This submission is made in response to the Supporting Australian stories on our screens – Options Paper of March 2020.
MEAA has written to the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste to express concern over a proposal to criminalise defamation. MEAA says the plan is a threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know.
There is an urgent need for a News Media Bargaining Code if media outlets are to be saved
