Freelancers - Write to Nine Management to Ensure Fair and Secure Rates!

Freelancers - Write to Nine Management to Ensure Fair and Secure Rates!

Your responses will be collected and sent to Nine management once we reach our target of 50 messages, so no one is sticking their neck out!
Dear Tory Maguire,

I am a freelance contributor at Nine Publishing. I am writing to urge you to continue discussions with our MEAA representatives to reach agreement on our 2025 rates and conditions. While we appreciate your assurances that you respect us and do not want rates to remain stagnant, we need more than words. Freelancers like me need the security of a signed agreement with fair minimum rates and annual increases, to ensure our rates cannot continue to go backwards.
My current rate is...
I get paid:

per wordper pieceper dayper hour
I have been freelancing at Nine Publishing (previously Fairfax) for:*
1 year ago (in 2023), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
2 years ago (in 2022), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
3 years ago (in 2021), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
4 years ago (in 2020), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
5 years ago (in 2019), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, in it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
6 years ago (in 2018), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, in it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
7 years ago (in 2017), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, in it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
8 years ago (in 2016), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, in it would now be..*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
9 years ago (in 2015), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, in it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
10 years ago (in 2014), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
15 years ago (in 2009), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
20 years ago (in 2004), my rate at Nine Publishing was... *
please answer in numbers only, according to the per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour that you have indicated above
If my rate had kept up with inflation, it would now be...*
per word/ per piece/ per day/ per hour
Figures above are calculated from September quarter of the relevant years (due to current unavailability of December 2024 data). Inflation percentages have been sourced from the Reserve Bank of Australia Inflation Calculator.
We will have no hesitancy in taking our stories to the public and escalating our campaign further, should you not meet our modest requests to ensure a sustainable future for our work.

Regards,
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