The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union for Australia's creative professionals, has expressed serious concern over recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission to overhaul Australia's copyright regime.
A long-running dispute between the Neighbours crew and FremantleMedia Australia could be headed for a resolution this week.
Negotiations between the union representing the crew on Neighbours and FremantleMedia Australia have reached a stalemate and the union is now seeking a ballot of its members in order to begin an industrial campaign.
Screen Producers Australia is striving to simplify the often cumbersome process of arranging contracts for screen productions.
MEAA crew members working on Neighbours have voted to take industrial action for the first time in 25 years.
More than 90 per cent of votes were in favour of protected industrial action, following stalled negotiations between MEAA and Freemantle
The MEAA has condemned the latest round of redundancies at Network Ten, claiming these will further erode its broadcast and editorial functions and massively increase the workload of the remaining staff.
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.
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.