Thursday, 24 May 2012

Orchestra Victoria musicians have this week voted in favour of a new enterprise agreement for 2012.

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Monday, 21 May 2012

Since the release of the Convergence Review's final report, the television networks have hit the opinion pages with the all too familiar pieces detailing the evils of regulation.

One piece, in last Monday's Media from Channel 10, described the recommended 50 per cent increase in the networks' subquota arrangements (drama, documentary and children's content) as an "arbitrary" response to a non-existent problem.

If only it were that simple.

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Union representation is more important than ever before, especially in an industry predominantly made up of insecure work, said Patricia Amphlett, Federal President of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, at the ACTU Federal Congress today. “Our union estimates that there are about 50,000 people who earn their income from the creative industries and about three quarters of us are in some form of insecure work,” Amphlett said.

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Alliance Federal President, Patricia Amphlett, addressed ACTU Congress today on the nature of insecure work.

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