MEAA Media Room


Treat Facebook and Google like media companies

April 11, 2018 Mark Phillips #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Releases

Digital giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should be regulated like other media companies and forced to contribute a percentage of their revenue towards public interest journalism, says the union for Australian media workers.

In a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platforms inquiry, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance says Google and Facebook ...

MEAA submission to the ACCC inquiry into digital platforms

April 10, 2018 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Submissions

On April 10, 2018, MEAA provided this submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platforms inquiry. 

MEAA condemns shooting of Gaza journalist

April 10, 2018 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, strongly condemns the targeting and shooting of journalists during protests in the southern Gaza strip on Friday.

Big names call for action to protect Australia’s screen culture

March 27, 2018 Mark Phillips #MakeItAustralian #MEAACrew #MEAAECS #MEAAEquity MediaRoom Releases

Dozens of Australia’s best-known and most successful actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and production crew – including 15 Oscar winners – have penned an open letter calling on the nation’s parliamentarians to protect the local screen industry and to act now to ensure it thrives into the future.

Joint statement: Shared commitment to cultural change in the theatre sector

March 23, 2018 Mark Phillips #MEAACrew #MEAAECS #MEAAEquity Health and safety MediaRoom Other statements Releases

We pay our respects to the First Nations people of this land that we’re meeting on.

Gathering on Wurundjeri land within the Kulin nation, the inaugural Safe Theatres Forum took place last weekend bringing together representatives from all areas of the not for profit spectrum of the performing arts industry.  This historic and unprecedented forum is the culmination of over a ...