Screen industry groups have welcomed a new parliamentary inquiry into the growth and sustainability of Australian film and TV as an opportunity to address “long-term systemic issues.â€
The MEAA has hit back at the government's new VET student loan scheme, arguing that making acting courses ineligible for support puts at risk "the next wave" of Australian actors.
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has backed the Labor Party's pledge to fully restore funding to the Australia Council and boost local drama on the ABC if it is elected on July 2.
"The announcement by ABC management yesterday afternoon of fourteen positions to be cut from the Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne newsrooms has been made more painful by yet another deplorable use of targeted redundancies", the MEAA said in a statem
The guidelines, assembled by the MEAA in conjunction with Interns Australia, is designed to assist students who believe they have been treated unethically or illegally while undertaking an internship.
More than 1000 people were surveyed for the MEAA's Women in Media Report: Mates Over Merit, revealing an entrenched gender pay gap in the media - particularly in newspapers.
The survey conducted by Women in Media - an advocacy group supported by the MEAA - desribes the Australian media as a a blokey culture that rewards mates over merit, tolerates sexual harassment, pays lip service to work-family balance, and perpetuates the
APN announced it intends to sell its Australian Regional Media arm after the company reported a seven percent slide in profit. The regional media division consists of twelve daily newspapers, sixty community and non-weekly publications and thirty regional