Australia’s $3 billion film and television industry needs greater leadership and support from the government to demonstrate the arts are valued in this country, says the union for performers and screen crew.
MEAA’s recommendations to the House of Representatives committee inquiry into the film and TV industry include greater government leadership of the film and television industries through offsets, direct funding assistance to bodies like Screen Australia and regulatory requirements, including Australian content requirements.
...MEAA welcomes the establishment of a Senate select committee that will inquire and report on the future of journalism in Australia.
Veteran Budget analysts and writers from the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age –journalists the public rely on to cut through the spin for the real story – will be missing from the Federal Budget press pack this year.
More than 60 journalists from both mastheads will travel to Canberra today to join their Press Gallery colleagues outside ...
In stop-work meetings today, Fairfax editorial staff voted to take industrial action for seven days.
Staff are disgusted at the company’s decision to cut 25 per cent of its journalists as part of $30 million in cost savings. The decision means that 125 full-time equivalent positions will be lost.
The cuts are so deep that the Fairfax mastheads will have to dramatically ...
