The GWA Community Officer Elections have now closed and the results tallied. Convenor Maize Wallin & Tim Colwill have been jointly elected to the role of Convenor YES: 100% – NO: 0% Administrator No nominations received. Position vacant. Community Organisers Mitch McCausland has been elected as a Community Organiser YES:…
Game Workers Australia (GWA) is now calling for nominations for community officer roles within our organisation. Like always, these are volunteer roles and open to anyone who wishes to devote their spare time campaigning and organising to build a better games industry here in Australia. Nominations are open to community…
Since launching in 2018, GWU Australia has been supporting and empowering workers to build a better games industry, together. As part of our efforts, we have been connecting our members with Australia’s union movement – and we have also been negotiating to bring the union movement to Australia’s games industry….
Game Workers Unite Australia stands in solidarity with writers at IGN and GameInformer who discovered this week that their articles on how readers could provide support to Palestinian civilians affected by Israel’s ongoing violent colonial settler campaign had been removed. As reported by VICE, writers at both outlets have received…
Game Workers Unite Australia welcomes today’s announcement of a 30% tax rebate for video game development in Australia. This is an enormous achievement and we acknowledge the huge efforts put in by the IGEA to lobby the Federal Government on this issue. While the concrete details about the Digital Games…
GWU Australia has been surveying freelance game developers in Australia as part of our project to set sustainable rates in our industry. Today we are releasing some very preliminary examples of the sort of rates that freelancers across the country have told us they are charging. One of the biggest…
This last week, the games industry has again been rocked by stories of people with power preying upon their colleagues, employees and fans. It is a harrowing moment but also important that we reckon with these revelations. GWU Australia condemns the perpetrators of these abuses. We have only one thing…
One of the big challenges facing game workers in Australia is that if you’re freelancing or contracting your skills out, it can be hard to know what to charge. With no set industry rates, you just don’t know where you fit in the puzzle. Game Workers Unite Australia is starting…
Enforcers are the lifeblood of the PAX conventions. Without them, the entire operation simply could not succeed. In many parts of the world, particularly the USA, Enforcers are paid for their time. Unfortunately here in Australia, Enforcers have been traditionally engaged as unpaid volunteers since the first PAX in 2013….
Today Game Workers Unite Australia released the second round of results from their Games Industry Survey, now running for its second year. The survey canvassed 258 different developers across the Australian games industry. Based on these answers, many of Australia’s game developers continue to be underpaid and deeply concerned about…
