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Performers combine to combat mental health stigma

August 2, 2016 #MEAAEquity News

The newly-formed Equity Wellness Committee has held its first meeting to start setting in place an agenda to put performers’ physical and mental wellbeing at the forefront of all Equity activities.

Inaugural Balibo Five-Roger East Fellowships announced

August 1, 2016 #MEAAMedia News

Four journalists from East Timor have been announced as the inaugural recipients of the Balibo Five-Roger East Fellowship, an initiative of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA.

Top ten tips: Queenie van de Zandt

August 1, 2016 #MEAAEquity

One of Australia’s most respected musical theatre performers shares her advice for mastering the audition process.

Spotlight on Adam Grace

August 1, 2016 #MEAAECS

Adam Grace, makes all the props on a production that can’t be hired or bought. He has worked on some of the world’s biggest films from The Matrix to Star Wars and Alien. He chats to us about the increasing role of technology in props, and how his love for making models and sci-fi lead him to work on some of the ...

Vale Murray Smith, 1940-2016

July 29, 2016 #MEAAMedia News
Murray Smith, who spent most of his career working for Standard/Leader newspapers in Melbourne, was a stalwart of the Australian Journalists’ Association and MEAA for well over half a century.