The Alliance is the union and professional organisation which covers everyone in the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries. Our 30,000 members include people working in TV, radio, theatre & film, entertainment venues, recreation grounds, journalists, actors, dancers, sportspeople, cartoonists, photographers, orchestral & opera performers as well as people working in public relations, advertising, book publishing & website production ...in fact everyone who works in the industries that inform or entertain Australians.

The union has branch offices in all states and is made up of separate sections so that each of the diverse occupations it embraces can control their own affairs and protect their professional autonomy. The union offers the infrastructure to members to run their own campaigns. Members of each section directly elect representatives to Branch Council and the Alliance’s supreme governing body, Federal Council. There is usually a local delegate or house committee at each workplace providing the vital link between members and the branch and federal offices. Also, active sectional committees for groups like performers and freelancers provide opportunities for dealing with important policy and professional issues affecting their work.

The Alliance was created in 1992 through the merging of the unions covering actors, journalists and entertainment industry employees: 

•  Actors Equity (AE) 
• The Australian Journalists Association (AJA)
•  The Australian Theatrical & Amusement Employees Association (ATAEA)

Since amalgamation, the Symphony Orchestra Musicians Association (SOMA) & the NSW Artworkers Union have joined the Alliance, a Professional Sports Branch has been created & the Screen Technicians Association of Australia (STAA) reconstituted itself under the Alliance banner. In recent times Actors Equity NZ, the Commercial TV Guild and the NSW Musicians Union have joined our ever growing Alliance.

To find out how much it costs to join the Alliance click here or to join our Alliance, fill in the following online application form.

Alliance Section Proposed	Australian Association of Television Freelancers Equity Section Theatrical Section Cinema & Outdoors Commercial TV Guild Media Alliance Musicians Section (NSW & WA) Equity NZ Professional Sports Branch SOMA Screen Technicians Association of Australia Student Membership
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