When I say this made me cackle... Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested on allegations of misusing state funds - ABC News share.google/6cPj2xHyXZWF... #slpol #lka #srilanka @abcnews via @apnews.com

If anyone wants to support a little tiny film please donate: www.gofundme.com/f/vanilla-sl...

Narmeen Qawwas was an intern, 28, killed when an air strike hit her home. An intern, learning the craft. Who should have been protected. A baby journo. If you won't see her rights as an equal human then think of what we lost in future reporting and news and passion for what is a dangerous job.

Proud to stand with my union against what is happening in Gaza. We remember and honour our colleagues who have been showing us the truth of what's happening on the ground. Stop Killing Journalists. #pressfreedom #gaza @withmeaa.bsky.social youtu.be/qMq8OUw95-U?...

Proud to stand with my union against what is happening in Gaza. We remember and honour our colleagues who have been showing us the truth of what's happening on the ground. Stop Killing Journalists. #pressfreedom #gaza @withmeaa.bsky.social youtu.be/qMq8OUw95-U?...

93rd Melbourne rally for Gaza, 25k in Melbourne, 300k in Sydney, 665 days since Oct 7. Recorded to bear witness, to show the call is not silent, isolated, small or invisible. Always for Gaza, for First Nations, for peace, for fellow journalists, for justice. www.facebook.com/share/v/1676...

@withmeaa.bsky.social Melbourne/Naarm members. Contingent meeting at state library steps at 11:45 am today to march. Come find us if you want to march with us. Will be in meaa hoodies etc. All sections.

Still laughing that the NSW Supreme Court basically told the NSW government to stop being clowns about preventing protests because it was uncomfortable for their vision of political branding. This guy really is Premier de Minnsimis

The former prime minister arguing against a constitutional separation of powers in favour of the premier being able to overrule the will of the people is an interesting direction for our “democracy”

'Right moment'? Australia risks losing power and respect on Gaza www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

This is also the argument the Samuel Griffith Society have seeded among the legal profession to lock up the courts on climate change and land rights.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Back to #writing #speculativefiction and #crimefiction: Twitch.tv/maristillplays

Nine Publishing relies on freelancers to deliver quality journalism, but with a business model that relies on freelance rates going backwards in real terms, freelancers cannot continue to sustainably do their jobs. SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW- www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

We have hit 1400+ signatures on this petition. It's public, anyone can sign. Would it not be nice to take it up to oooh say 3000 by Monday? Sign & share if you think Nine shld pay their journalists. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr... #auspol #petition @withmeaa.bsky.social #media #election

Nine newspapers have slashed in-house staff, refused to pay decent rates to freelancers, yet executives are earning millions. Freelancers are asking for a fair minimum rate and regular rate increases. Please support us, sign our petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr... @withmeaa.bsky.social

Freelance journos shoulder growing personal and political risks while our pay has been declining for decades - sign the petition today demanding that Nine resume negotiations for minimum rates and a collective freelance agreement! @withmeaa.bsky.social www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

Seeing stuff like this makes me desperately miss cataloguing queer games. So much cool stuff in one place! Amazing work by the Checkpoint team, I can't wait to discover a bunch of new favourites! 💖

Freelancers and the @withmeaa.bsky.social are demanding that Nine returns to the negotiating table to give workers a fair go. Sign the petition here: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/freelance-nine

As a reader/subscriber, the money Nine mgmt makes off you is not going to staff or freelancers. Mgmt agreed to meet freelancers last year - they've not offered anything meaningful yet on rates. Pls sign & share this. Ask where your $ go if not to staff. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

Events this week in Melbourne: Monday 31 March: 5:30 pm Trans day of visibility rally at state library 6 pm @withMEAA meet up at Emerald Peacock April 3: Women In Media Freelancer Panel event at Social Status in South Melbourne at 5:30 pm - register here: bit.ly/41lKsv7

Hi, I'm Marisa Wikramanayake. I'm a freelance journo, book editor & writer currently based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) on Kulin land & a member of my union @withmeaa.bsky.social. This is a thread of impt info to help people.

If the Walkleys becomes more independent of the union, who does it answer to? Who sees where the money goes? How it is spent? If things are genuinely made equitable & accessible to all in our industry? If things are ethical? I want it to be for all of us not just a few.

If you contribute to The Age, SMH, AFR, WAtoday, and/or Brisbane Times its critical you come along to an important meeting to hear delegates report back on management's position and vote on our next steps as a collective. meaa.io/4iBvJ6y #MEAAmedia #FairGo4Freelancers

Let's have a debate! The Walkleys would not exist without our union @withmeaa.bsky.social which created the awards and sustained and nurtured them for 70 years 1/3 Walkleys board members resign amid tensions between union and awards foundation | Weekly Beast www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Media release: The Walkley Awards have been part of the MEAA’s DNA for 70 years. meaa.io/41u3P5n

A 'more independent' Walkley foundation sounds good at first... But is anyone answering the follow-up question of where the foundation WOULD get its mandate from? MEAA is the most democratic, accountable body the profession has. www.smh.com.au/business/com...

We do know that the demands for WF independence from MEAA seemed happen around the same time MEAA members started asking why the Walkley Foundation had given a grant to COSMOS to use AI to write content, undermining MEAA members' work without consent or remuneration. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Great questions, especially as no one has any idea what the legal and financial issues that necessitate urgently changing the make-up of the board actually are.

If you are a Qld resident there is a petition to parliament to expand gender affirming care so please go sign ASAP: www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-... #lgbtqia+ #auspol #qldpol #transrights #healthcare

My head is often so full of other things come Christmas time that I fail to spot certain things. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that @crikey.com.au does a shit-stirrer of the year index. Can i get in on this? This is amazing! Go check your emails if you are subbed to them/the website.

SOURCES WANTED: If any South Asians living in Australia wish to be interviewed for a story on recent drowning data, please contact Radha M at journalist.rads26 (at) gmail.com ASAP.

SOURCES WANTED: If any South Asians living in Australia wish to be interviewed for a story on recent drowning data, please contact Radha M at journalist.rads26 (at) gmail.com ASAP.

Excited to share the first instalment in this investigation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social about the origins and work of Ipieca, the shadowy oil and gas industry body within the United Nations that has been helping shape the global response to climate change from the beginning.

What we don't need, as @withmeaa.bsky.social media president Karen Percy said this week, is "politicians, bureaucrats, PR lobbyists, lawyers or other special interest groups who have little experience of the current news ecosphere" telling us what journalism is. 12/ www.meaa.org/mediaroom/ad...

Journalism in Australia IS in crisis. Voluntary redundancies are more common than in-house jobs, governments are increasingly opaque and brazen about it, defamation laws are silencing stories that need to be told, our FOI system is broken. These are the threats we need to deal with. 11/

Greste spent 400 days imprisoned in Egypt for doing journalism. That is a sacrifice that must leave deep scars, and I have great respect for his fortitude, and understand how that experience is driving his intentions. But it doesn't make him right. 10/

It's telling that the image chosen to accompany this piece, which harkens back to the 'good old days' of journalism, "when journalists were trusted and admired", is a middle-aged white man. Your bias is showing. 8/

And for journalists to access the proposed legal protection, their names will presumably be made available to authorities -a list of 'member journalists'. Of course, no government would ever use that list of journalists for nefarious means, would they? *sarcasm* 7/

It's not much of a stretch to imagine how a legally enshrined definition of 'journalist' might be weaponised against, say, journalists who speak out about Gaza, who investigate war crimes, who are from marginalised and oppressed communities ... who the government of the day does not like. 6/

His website explicitly argues that journalists who do not have these titles and who are apparently therefore not accountable to a code of conduct "such as an independent freelance journalist or a volunteer for a local news service", are not deserving of the same protection. *screams in freelance* 5/

Greste says being a journalist "depends not on any job title, but on the ethics and standards that lie behind the reporting." Yet he continues to argue that only in-house journalists (title) or those with membership of a journalism org (title) are 'real' journalists. 4/

It makes no difference if they’re an investigative reporter with the ABC, a freelance journalist writing for science mags, a blogger reporting on local council meetings, a teen doing news bulletins on X/BlueSky, or someone documenting human rights abuses via Instagram. 3/

If they’re doing journalism, if they’re following the practices and principles of journalism described in, amongst other things the MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics, then they are a #journalist. www.meaa.org/meaa-media/c... 2/

Peter Greste is trying to appoint himself the new champion and arbiter of #journalism in Australia. But his ideas are elitist, antiquated, and dangerous. “Does a YouTuber producing a daily newscast deserve the same protection as an investigative journalist working for the ABC?” Yes, they do. 1/

Post you from a different era (2008ish)

Thanks @saffronhowden.bsky.social for putting together a list of Australian regional and rural journalists as a BlueSky Starter Pack go.bsky.app/6e7CeRU

Labor to confiscate phones from non-citizens in immigration detention in new bill www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

vt.tiktok.com/ZSjmsxTKx/ No idea if this will work but congrats to the entrants, finalists and winners at the 2024 Walkleys!