MEAA
@withmeaa.bsky.social
The union & industry advocate for Australia's creative professionals.
Authorised by Erin Madeley, 245 Chalmers St, Redfern NSW 2016. Phone: 1300 65 65 13
Authorised by Erin Madeley, 245 Chalmers St, Redfern NSW 2016. Phone: 1300 65 65 13
Award winning journalist @quentindempster.bsky.social on the importance of freelance journalists in our media landscape and the threat of AI.
Media companies need to PAY UP and stop making deals with AI companies that don't include consent and compensation for media workers.
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp
Media companies need to PAY UP and stop making deals with AI companies that don't include consent and compensation for media workers.
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Award winning journalist @quentindempster.bsky.social on the importance of freelance journalists in our media landscape and the threat of AI.
Media companies need to PAY UP and stop making deals with AI companies that don't include consent and compensation for media workers.
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp
Media companies need to PAY UP and stop making deals with AI companies that don't include consent and compensation for media workers.
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp
Staff at the ABC have voted to reject management’s insulting enterprise agreement offer, which sought to undermine previous wins, stall careers and worsen job insecurity.
MEAA members at the ABC are not only fighting for fair pay and conditions but for the future of the national broadcaster.
MEAA members at the ABC are not only fighting for fair pay and conditions but for the future of the national broadcaster.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Staff at the ABC have voted to reject management’s insulting enterprise agreement offer, which sought to undermine previous wins, stall careers and worsen job insecurity.
MEAA members at the ABC are not only fighting for fair pay and conditions but for the future of the national broadcaster.
MEAA members at the ABC are not only fighting for fair pay and conditions but for the future of the national broadcaster.
We're calling on tech giants to step up and PAY UP so that actors, writers, musicians, and other creatives are fairly compensated for their work. Add your name here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft.
Together, we can make a difference.
#PayUp #StopAITheft @Google
Together, we can make a difference.
#PayUp #StopAITheft @Google
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
We're calling on tech giants to step up and PAY UP so that actors, writers, musicians, and other creatives are fairly compensated for their work. Add your name here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft.
Together, we can make a difference.
#PayUp #StopAITheft @Google
Together, we can make a difference.
#PayUp #StopAITheft @Google
Do big tech companies have any respect for the work of creative and media workers?
Show your support for our campaign to make AI companies pay up here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft @OpenAI
Show your support for our campaign to make AI companies pay up here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft @OpenAI
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Do big tech companies have any respect for the work of creative and media workers?
Show your support for our campaign to make AI companies pay up here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft @OpenAI
Show your support for our campaign to make AI companies pay up here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft @OpenAI
ABC workers deserve a fair deal—not a step backwards. The current proposal fails to deliver on pay, conditions, and respect for the work you do every day. Vote NO to their insulting offer.
#FairDealForABC #VoteNOatABC
#FairDealForABC #VoteNOatABC
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
ABC workers deserve a fair deal—not a step backwards. The current proposal fails to deliver on pay, conditions, and respect for the work you do every day. Vote NO to their insulting offer.
#FairDealForABC #VoteNOatABC
#FairDealForABC #VoteNOatABC
AI companies must compensate creative and media workers for the content they use to train their AI tools.
Add your support: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @google
Add your support: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @google
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
AI companies must compensate creative and media workers for the content they use to train their AI tools.
Add your support: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @google
Add your support: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @google
No amount of artificial intelligence will be able to replace real human creativity.
Hey Spotify: pay your artists and workers! Sign the open letter: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #Spotify #StopAITheft
Hey Spotify: pay your artists and workers! Sign the open letter: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #Spotify #StopAITheft
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
No amount of artificial intelligence will be able to replace real human creativity.
Hey Spotify: pay your artists and workers! Sign the open letter: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #Spotify #StopAITheft
Hey Spotify: pay your artists and workers! Sign the open letter: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #Spotify #StopAITheft
For our ABC to provide Australia with the quality journalism we need, staff need to have secure jobs, sustainable careers and fair pay. Management's enterprise agreement offer will send the ABC backwards with cuts to job security and career progression, and pay that doesn't keep up with inflation.
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
For our ABC to provide Australia with the quality journalism we need, staff need to have secure jobs, sustainable careers and fair pay. Management's enterprise agreement offer will send the ABC backwards with cuts to job security and career progression, and pay that doesn't keep up with inflation.
Show your support for our campaign to make Big Tech companies 💰 PAY UP 💸 here:
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#StopAITheft #PayUp
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#StopAITheft #PayUp
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Show your support for our campaign to make Big Tech companies 💰 PAY UP 💸 here:
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#StopAITheft #PayUp
meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#StopAITheft #PayUp
Hey Spotify, Meta, Google, Amazon and OpenAI, you want to profit from the creativity of musicians, performers, artists and media workers? Pay Up!
#PayUp #StopAITheft
meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft
meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Hey Spotify, Meta, Google, Amazon and OpenAI, you want to profit from the creativity of musicians, performers, artists and media workers? Pay Up!
#PayUp #StopAITheft
meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft
meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
On remembrance day, MEAA remembers the journalists and war correspondents that have risked, and continue to risk their lives to report on the horrors of war.
Charles Bean (pictured), was elected by the AJA (which went on to become part of MEAA) to be Australia's official WW1 war correspondent.
Charles Bean (pictured), was elected by the AJA (which went on to become part of MEAA) to be Australia's official WW1 war correspondent.
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
On remembrance day, MEAA remembers the journalists and war correspondents that have risked, and continue to risk their lives to report on the horrors of war.
Charles Bean (pictured), was elected by the AJA (which went on to become part of MEAA) to be Australia's official WW1 war correspondent.
Charles Bean (pictured), was elected by the AJA (which went on to become part of MEAA) to be Australia's official WW1 war correspondent.
Journalists, writers and reporters are very concerned about AI companies stealing their work without consent or compensation and then churning it into content that doesn't serve the public interest, can't be trusted and can be used to create misinformation. #PayUp!
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Journalists, writers and reporters are very concerned about AI companies stealing their work without consent or compensation and then churning it into content that doesn't serve the public interest, can't be trusted and can be used to create misinformation. #PayUp!
MEAA welcomes the Federal Government's announcement of new rules requiring major streaming services to ensure that 10% of total program expenditure, or 7.5% of total Australian revenue, goes towards Australian-made content.
meaa.io/3JJdsZ2
meaa.io/3JJdsZ2
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
MEAA welcomes the Federal Government's announcement of new rules requiring major streaming services to ensure that 10% of total program expenditure, or 7.5% of total Australian revenue, goes towards Australian-made content.
meaa.io/3JJdsZ2
meaa.io/3JJdsZ2
Calling all freelance photographers, cartoonists, journalists, podcasters and media workers!
Tell us about your experiences as a freelancer, to shape the next phase of our campaign to set a floor for rates and conditions in our industry: freelancers.org.au/2025-industr...
Tell us about your experiences as a freelancer, to shape the next phase of our campaign to set a floor for rates and conditions in our industry: freelancers.org.au/2025-industr...
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Calling all freelance photographers, cartoonists, journalists, podcasters and media workers!
Tell us about your experiences as a freelancer, to shape the next phase of our campaign to set a floor for rates and conditions in our industry: freelancers.org.au/2025-industr...
Tell us about your experiences as a freelancer, to shape the next phase of our campaign to set a floor for rates and conditions in our industry: freelancers.org.au/2025-industr...
The recent commitment to no text and data mining exceptions for AI companies from the federal government is a good start — but it's just a start. We still need big tech companies to #PayUp for the data they have already used to train their AI algorithms.
#StopAITheft #PayUp
#StopAITheft #PayUp
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The recent commitment to no text and data mining exceptions for AI companies from the federal government is a good start — but it's just a start. We still need big tech companies to #PayUp for the data they have already used to train their AI algorithms.
#StopAITheft #PayUp
#StopAITheft #PayUp
Brisbane/Meanjin vigil to observe the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Nov 2.
We will commemorate the 50 years since the killing of the Balibo Five and Roger East, as well as lament the killing of all journalists and media workers over the last year.
meaa.io/4nlgVuz
We will commemorate the 50 years since the killing of the Balibo Five and Roger East, as well as lament the killing of all journalists and media workers over the last year.
meaa.io/4nlgVuz
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Brisbane/Meanjin vigil to observe the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Nov 2.
We will commemorate the 50 years since the killing of the Balibo Five and Roger East, as well as lament the killing of all journalists and media workers over the last year.
meaa.io/4nlgVuz
We will commemorate the 50 years since the killing of the Balibo Five and Roger East, as well as lament the killing of all journalists and media workers over the last year.
meaa.io/4nlgVuz
Join us for Sydney Media Drinks!
5.30pm, Wed, Oct 29
Including a panel discussion: Reporting on the Far Right with MEAA members Ariel Bogle (Guardian Australia), Nabil Al-Nashar (ABC) and Perry Duffin (The Sydney Morning Herald).
RSVP HERE: meaa.io/3WSeODH
5.30pm, Wed, Oct 29
Including a panel discussion: Reporting on the Far Right with MEAA members Ariel Bogle (Guardian Australia), Nabil Al-Nashar (ABC) and Perry Duffin (The Sydney Morning Herald).
RSVP HERE: meaa.io/3WSeODH
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Join us for Sydney Media Drinks!
5.30pm, Wed, Oct 29
Including a panel discussion: Reporting on the Far Right with MEAA members Ariel Bogle (Guardian Australia), Nabil Al-Nashar (ABC) and Perry Duffin (The Sydney Morning Herald).
RSVP HERE: meaa.io/3WSeODH
5.30pm, Wed, Oct 29
Including a panel discussion: Reporting on the Far Right with MEAA members Ariel Bogle (Guardian Australia), Nabil Al-Nashar (ABC) and Perry Duffin (The Sydney Morning Herald).
RSVP HERE: meaa.io/3WSeODH
As NSW faces a heatwave and there is a storm warning in VIC it's timely to remember to look after yourself and know your rights for working in dangerous weather conditions wherever you are:
www.meaa.org/news/your-ri...
www.meaa.org/news/your-ri...
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
As NSW faces a heatwave and there is a storm warning in VIC it's timely to remember to look after yourself and know your rights for working in dangerous weather conditions wherever you are:
www.meaa.org/news/your-ri...
www.meaa.org/news/your-ri...
UNION WIN! Over 150 ABC staff on rolling contracts have been converted to ongoing employment after MEAA took action in the federal court to enforce the law.
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
UNION WIN! Over 150 ABC staff on rolling contracts have been converted to ongoing employment after MEAA took action in the federal court to enforce the law.
Today, investigative reporter Ben Butler and freelance journalist Royce Kurmelovs spoke to a Senate inquiry to outline why proposed changes to Freedom of Information legislation are a major threat to journalists' ability to do their jobs, and the public's right to know.
#MEAAmedia
#MEAAmedia
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today, investigative reporter Ben Butler and freelance journalist Royce Kurmelovs spoke to a Senate inquiry to outline why proposed changes to Freedom of Information legislation are a major threat to journalists' ability to do their jobs, and the public's right to know.
#MEAAmedia
#MEAAmedia
Big Tech companies want an exception for data and text mining so they can use creative and media work to train their AI algorithms without having to pay for it.
They shouldn’t get an exception; they should get an invoice.
#PayUp #StopAITheft
They shouldn’t get an exception; they should get an invoice.
#PayUp #StopAITheft
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Big Tech companies want an exception for data and text mining so they can use creative and media work to train their AI algorithms without having to pay for it.
They shouldn’t get an exception; they should get an invoice.
#PayUp #StopAITheft
They shouldn’t get an exception; they should get an invoice.
#PayUp #StopAITheft
MEAA members honour the memory of the Balibo Five and we stand in solidarity with all journalists risking their lives to bring the world news that matters.
Sadly, the tragedy of Balibo is not a relic of history. In Gaza alone, more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed.
Sadly, the tragedy of Balibo is not a relic of history. In Gaza alone, more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed.
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
MEAA members honour the memory of the Balibo Five and we stand in solidarity with all journalists risking their lives to bring the world news that matters.
Sadly, the tragedy of Balibo is not a relic of history. In Gaza alone, more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed.
Sadly, the tragedy of Balibo is not a relic of history. In Gaza alone, more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed.
Over 300 freelance cartoonists, photographers, journos and podcasters across the media industry have shared their experiences to inform the next stage of our campaign to win fair freelance standards. If you're a freelancer in journalism, have your say now: meaa.io/3Ipmhqf
#MEAAmedia
#MEAAmedia
October 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Over 300 freelance cartoonists, photographers, journos and podcasters across the media industry have shared their experiences to inform the next stage of our campaign to win fair freelance standards. If you're a freelancer in journalism, have your say now: meaa.io/3Ipmhqf
#MEAAmedia
#MEAAmedia
MEAA is campaigning for fairer policies for performer's makeup and call times.
Members can take action by signing the open letter: meaa.io/calltime
Tell us about your experiences with performance makeup in the comments. 👇🏽
#MEAAequity
Members can take action by signing the open letter: meaa.io/calltime
Tell us about your experiences with performance makeup in the comments. 👇🏽
#MEAAequity
October 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
MEAA is campaigning for fairer policies for performer's makeup and call times.
Members can take action by signing the open letter: meaa.io/calltime
Tell us about your experiences with performance makeup in the comments. 👇🏽
#MEAAequity
Members can take action by signing the open letter: meaa.io/calltime
Tell us about your experiences with performance makeup in the comments. 👇🏽
#MEAAequity
MEAA has partnered with the Centre for Indigenous People and Work to undertake a research project to improve the working lives of mob working as journalists, actors, singers, dancers, radio hosts, roadies, light or sound technicians, and crew: meaa.io/jumbunna
#ICMEAA
#ICMEAA
September 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
MEAA has partnered with the Centre for Indigenous People and Work to undertake a research project to improve the working lives of mob working as journalists, actors, singers, dancers, radio hosts, roadies, light or sound technicians, and crew: meaa.io/jumbunna
#ICMEAA
#ICMEAA