The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is pleased to announce that Paul Murphy has been appointed chief executive officer, effective March 2015.
Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten, deputy Tanya Plibersek and leaders from the Australian arts and journalism communities will join forces to launch a campaign aimed at demonstrating the strength of public opposition to ABC funding cuts as part of a
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance will press for mandatory minimum rates for technicians employed in Australian film and TV dramas and in big offshore productions that location in Oz.
After 10 years as president of Actors Equity Australia, Simon Burke has stepped down from that post.
An Actors Equity national performers committee member has defended the union’s process of vetting imported actors in Australian taxpayer-funded film and TV productions.
MEAA members have endorsed an in-principle industrial agreement between the Walt Disney Studios and the union to shoot the fifth edition of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in Australia.
Roy Billing has resigned from Actors Equity’s national performers committee in protest at the removal of Sue McCreadie as the director of Actors Equity.
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.