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
Big Tech companies steal the work of real journalists to train their AI machines that spit out misinformation and fake facts. Put your name to our open letter demanding they PAY UP:
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Big Tech companies steal the work of real journalists to train their AI machines that spit out misinformation and fake facts. Put your name to our open letter demanding they PAY UP:
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
The record industry, initially opposed to the watering down of copyright for AI companies, is back to business as usual: ripping off musicians.
#PayUp #StopAITheft
buff.ly/CGF2yun
@WarnerMusicAU
#PayUp #StopAITheft
buff.ly/CGF2yun
@WarnerMusicAU
Warner Music Group partners with Suno to offer AI likenesses of its artists
Suno will use WMG music to create its next-gen AI model, too.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The record industry, initially opposed to the watering down of copyright for AI companies, is back to business as usual: ripping off musicians.
#PayUp #StopAITheft
buff.ly/CGF2yun
@WarnerMusicAU
#PayUp #StopAITheft
buff.ly/CGF2yun
@WarnerMusicAU
Big Tech is using the art, music and work of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people to train AI algorithms, with no respect for cultural protocols or its spiritual and historic significance.
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Big Tech is using the art, music and work of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people to train AI algorithms, with no respect for cultural protocols or its spiritual and historic significance.
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
What happens to the performing arts when we leave the performance to a machine that has never felt a human emotion?
Support our campaign by signing the open letter to big tech companies here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @openai
Support our campaign by signing the open letter to big tech companies here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @openai
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
What happens to the performing arts when we leave the performance to a machine that has never felt a human emotion?
Support our campaign by signing the open letter to big tech companies here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @openai
Support our campaign by signing the open letter to big tech companies here: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @openai
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.
This Bill includes a duty of care to ensure AI automation doesn’t risk workers’ safety through excessive workloads or surveillance. Unsurprisingly, big tech companies don't want unions to be able to inspect these systems to protect worker's health and safety.
meaa.io/4a48VuX
#PayUp #StopAITheft
meaa.io/4a48VuX
#PayUp #StopAITheft
NSW PROPOSES REGULATION OF WORKPLACE AI
nsw regulate ai
www.ohsrep.org.au
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This Bill includes a duty of care to ensure AI automation doesn’t risk workers’ safety through excessive workloads or surveillance. Unsurprisingly, big tech companies don't want unions to be able to inspect these systems to protect worker's health and safety.
meaa.io/4a48VuX
#PayUp #StopAITheft
meaa.io/4a48VuX
#PayUp #StopAITheft
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 we really trust companies like Meta to uphold Australia's democracy? Click here to demand Meta pay up for AI theft: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft #Meta
#PayUp #StopAITheft #Meta
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
meaa.io
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Do we really trust companies like Meta to uphold Australia's democracy? Click here to demand Meta pay up for AI theft: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#PayUp #StopAITheft #Meta
#PayUp #StopAITheft #Meta
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.
Journalists in regional newsrooms fear the rollout of AI will lead to more job cuts, replaced by generative AI that can make alarming mistakes.
Regional newsroom staff say AI rollout leading to potential errors
Staff and a union say a generative AI model being tested in Australian Community Media's regional newspapers is misattributing facts and leaving some fearing for their jobs.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Journalists in regional newsrooms fear the rollout of AI will lead to more job cuts, replaced by generative AI that can make alarming mistakes.
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.
We stand in solidarity with media workers at Condé Nast US, particularly the members of @condeunion.bsky.social who were fired for standing up for workers’ rights, and the many people of colour and LGBTQIA+ workers laid off at Teen Vogue.
Donate to the workers’ GoFundMe here:
meaa.io/4p2ziG1
Donate to the workers’ GoFundMe here:
meaa.io/4p2ziG1
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
We stand in solidarity with media workers at Condé Nast US, particularly the members of @condeunion.bsky.social who were fired for standing up for workers’ rights, and the many people of colour and LGBTQIA+ workers laid off at Teen Vogue.
Donate to the workers’ GoFundMe here:
meaa.io/4p2ziG1
Donate to the workers’ GoFundMe here:
meaa.io/4p2ziG1
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
5:30 TONIGHT!
See you soon.
See you soon.
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 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
5:30 TONIGHT!
See you soon.
See you soon.
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