1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...WorkChoices; laws overwhelmingly rejected by Australians at the last election. Management at Fairfax Media is trying to drive down journalists’ wages and create a company that produces low-cost, l...

2. Campaign Contacts
(The Campaign/About Us)

Campaign Claire O'Rourke Industrial Organiser, Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance Em: claire.orourke@alliance.org.au Ph: 02 9333 0935 Mb: 0412 984 925 Media Inquiries Mike Do

3. Executive Salaries: A study
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... future is nothing more than a means of stripping value out of one of this country’s oldest and proudest media groups. David Kirk, Brian McCarthy and their moneyed mates have a plan for the future ...

4. Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

In May this year , the Media Alliance and The Walkley Foundation organised a two-day seminar on the future of journalism. Much of the time was spent asking, “Do newspapers have a future?” Clearly, con

5. Fairfax cuts spell decline of excellence
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...uires an investment." These words, published in this paper yesterday by former editor and long-time media watcher Mark Day, have never rung more true than in the present climate of uncertainty su...

6. Media Alliance alert: Company threat to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... and we have set our legal processes in train. Do not be intimidated by this. Consider how a major media company locking out its own professional staff on its flagship metro mastheads will play ...

7. ACTU: Fairfax job cuts go too far
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

 This week’s announcement of plans to cut 550 jobs at Fairfax Media is another worrying case of a short-sighted push for profits by bonus-driven executives at the expense of people’s livelihoods

8. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ledged their support, saying in a statement that “professional journalism and healthy competition in the media are vital to applying scrutiny to government and the corporate sector in the interests of...

9. Australian staffers express their support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

The Alliance chapter at The Australian offices in Sydney deeply regrets the management action at Fairfax Media that has left so many journalists in distress. Media Alliance members at The Australian

10. Caucus told Fairfax redundancies threaten democracy
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...l Government parliamentary secretary, John Murphy, says. Mr Murphy, who has a long-standing interest in media diversity issues, raised the matter with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during yesterday's c...

11. Sydney Rally AM Friday
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Footage from the Sydney rally is now available. Media Alliance federal secretary, Christopher Warren, federal president, Patricia Amphlett and Media section president, Ruth Pollard address journalists

12. Welcome back to work!
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...d enterprise agreement for seven days before any formal vote of acceptance occurs. The company and the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance will finalise the drafting this week. Resolving...

13. We're right behind you say Murdoch journos
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...stheads. Alliance members at HWT recognise that professional journalism and healthy competition in the media are vital to applying scrutiny to government and the corporate sector in the interests of...

14. NZ EPMU: Letter of Support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...- but by then the damage was done. Members here are appalled to have learned of the jobs cuts from other media. We're appalled our management has not yet held staff meetings. When I challenged our GM ...

15. Our Facebook group hits 2000 members
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...more than 2000 members - it's been a staggering response. Your support for quality journalism at Fairfax Media has been tremendous. But this campaign is far from over.  We need to spread the wor...

16. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

An astonishing story published by Crikey.com.au today begins; "An extraordinarily generous scheme to reward senior staff based on company performance has been exposed at Fairfax and sheds new li

17. Fairfax Members Vote To Strike
(The Campaign/Actions)

Media Alliance members working on Fairfax publications in Sydney, Melbourne, the Illawarra and Newcastle have voted overwhelmingly to stop work immediately until Monday. The strike will affect the

18. Staff continue the battle
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...the campaign to fight for the future of our company. Anyone who works at Fairfax is eligible to join the Media Alliance. It’s unlawful for anyone to discriminate against you if you exercise your right...

19. Fairfax flack Bruce Wolpe turns up in Denver
(The Campaign/In The News)

As Fairfax Media faced its biggest crisis since the disastrous takeover of the company by Warwick Fairfax two decades ago, its corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe was thousands of kilometres away in D

20. ABC PM: Fairfax standing ground over journalist strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

...on quality by retrenching too many staff, but Fairfax's response so far has been unbending. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/pm/200808/20080829-pm09-fairfaxcuts.mp3 ...

21. Fairfax directors’ $22 million dividend
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Next month, the directors of Fairfax Media will be receiving final dividend cheques worth more than $22 million thanks to their shareholdings in the company. Those cheques are in addition to the $4

22. Media Report: The axe falls at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and ad

23. Phil Burgess on Just The Facts
(The Campaign/In The News)

...at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney yesterday, doesn’t think much of the Fairfax Media web site Just The Facts http://fairfaxjustthefacts.com.au/justthefacts/   Here’s w...

24. Secrecy surrounded establishment of Fairfax 'sub hub'
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media has begun its experiment of outsourcing part of the editorial production of its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, days after the move was announced as part of a redundancy progra

25. Fairfax newspaper production to be outsourced
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media will outsource much of its editorial production function for its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical

26. Age Independence Committee writes to Kirk, Walker
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...een the envy of our rivals?" Visit Maintain Your Age and see the text of the letter sent to Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk and copied to Fairfax Media chairman Ron Walker under the Latest News tab....

27. The stockbroker's view
(The Campaign/In The News)

Today, the Australian sharemarket fell 2%. Meanwhile, shares in Fairfax Media fell 4.5% to $2.75. That means David Kirk's shareholding of 1.97 million shares is worth $5.41 million. Kirk may want to r

28. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media journalists took the fight for quality journalism up to CEO David Kirk yesterday, asking why he was rewarding himself with a 23.8% pay rise to $3.41 million - the equivalent of 10 prime

29. Sunday Age clings to "hope"
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost

30. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk is worth two Australian prime ministers more in 2008 than he was in 2007 after getting a 23.8% pay increase. In the past 12 months, the Fairfax share price has plunged 40%