Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance

About the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance

The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance is the union and leading advocate for workers in the creative and media sectors. It represents performers, journalists and all other workers in the creative and media industries and has over 15,000 members.

Building on our proud history we aim to empower the people who inform and entertain

Australia through:

     Protecting and advancing our rights at work: Improving our members income and conditions, providing timely and expert advice to members, enforcing members rights at work and promoting safe and respectful workplaces.

     Building Power: Recruiting and growing leaders, activists and supporters, ensuring best practice governance and accountability, continued staff development and building strategic alliances.

     Building Community: Utilising communications to engage and activate, remaining relevant throughout members lives, reaching out to new areas and being the creative hub.

     Shaping our Industries: Being the respected and authoritative voice across all of our industries, influencing policy, mobilising our membership and broadening our sphere of influence.

Our Members

Our members include people working in television, radio, theatre and film, entertainment venues and recreation grounds, as journalists, actors, dancers, sportspeople, cartoonists and photographers, orchestral and opera performers, as well as people working in public relations, advertising, book publishing and website production.

Our Locations and Staffing

The MEAA national office is in Redfern in Sydney.

There are branch offices located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.