Freelancers are welcome to join us at the Eastern Suburbs freeline coffee meeting on Friday 20th August at 10:30 am. Meet at Jones the Grocer, Moncur Street, Woollahra. There’s plenty of parking and it’s a short stroll from Oxford Street Paddington if you’re catching a bus, or the 389 bus also runs past Jones. Time 10.30. Further details, contact Emily Chantiri via freeline.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Photographers Rally against bad Australian laws
Australian photographer Ken Duncan is organising a rally next Sunday 29 August at 10am at Campbell Cove to raise awareness about the eroding rights of photographers in Australia, thanks to laws that prohibit photography without a permit in many public places around Australia.
This has implications for any freelancer shooting pics in many public areas – Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and Waverley Council for example have quite nasty restrictions. [oops! I could have been very seriously busted a few times recently!]
Duncan chairs an umbrella body, Arts Freedom Australia, which represents Australia’s major photographic associations as well as many individual photographers, is protesting the growing laws that restrict photography.
Duncan (who made his fortune before today’s regulations were put in place), says that these days, Australian photographers (professional, part-time or amateur) can risk getting a criminal record for taking a picture of a rock.
AFA recently completed a comparative study of legislation and policies imposed on photographers and film-makers within Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America and found Australian photographers and film-makers were seriously affected by a myriad of rules and regulations that impose prohibitive restrictions, high fees, and bureaucratic application protocols.
More information here: http://www.artsfreedomaustralia.com/blog/?p=99
2010 winners: Good Editor and Good Corporate Editor awards
The winners of the 2010 Good Editor and Good Corporate Editor awards were announced last Thursday at the Walkleys Media Conference Freelance Event.
They were:
* Good Editor – Claudine Ryan, ABC Health & Wellbeing
* Good Corporate editor – Mick Paskos, Law Institute Journal (LIJ), Victoria
To listen to the announcement made at the Walkleys, click on the following link.
\”Good Editor Award 2010 announcement\”
Congratulations to both our winners!
