Veteran actress Noeline Brown will be honoured with the 2017 Equity Lifetime Achievement Award.
The chorus of voices calling for a review of the process for approving imported actors in Australian taxpayer-funded film and TV productions is growing louder.
Australian performers remain in dispute after more than two months with the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA).
A delegation of producers, performers and broadcasters have spent the past two days in Canberra voicing concerns on the effect piracy is having on the Australian screen industry.
Maggie Dence has had a successful career spanning four decades
Sue McCreadie has stepped down as director of Actors Equity amid negotiations between the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance and Screen Producers Australia over two new industrial agreements.
The Equity director has stepped down after 12 years
Zoe Angus has quit as national director of Equity at MEAA to join SPA.