The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.

It’s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job. It’s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.

Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we’ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives. And that can all be in the same week!

Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone who listens. So, clock on to “On the Job” and take a listen back through the archives. 

On The Job Episodes And Articles:


It's all about the economy, and the economy is people, stupid!

Published: 23/01/2022

As we head into the third, exhausting year of the COVID19 pandemic, we are hearing our politicians talking a lot about protecting the economy.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


Workers and Unions know workplace health and safety – so why is Morrison ignoring them?

Workers and Unions know workplace health and safety – so why is Morrison ignoring them?

Published: 20/01/2022
Category: On The Job

Of course, it was all smirk and mirrors, and as we head into the third year of an increasingly gruelling pandemic, Australian workers are under no illusions about whether the Prime Minister is putting their health and safety first.

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Omincron sh*tstorm, work & you

Published: 16/01/2022

As 2022 begins it feels like we're back at square one with the COVID19 pandemic as the Omicron variant causes havoc across huge parts of Australia.

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Omincron sh*tstorm, work & you

Published: 16/01/2022

As 2022 begins it feels like we're back at square one with the COVID19 pandemic as the Omicron variant causes havoc across huge parts of Australia.

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History Nerd Out - When Nelson Mandela came to Melbourne

Published: 09/01/2022

On the 11th of February, 1990, Nelson Mandela, the leader of South Africa's outlawed resistance movement, the African National Congress (ANC) was released from prison after 27 years of incarceration.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


History nerd out - Who was Zelda D'Aprano?

Published: 02/01/2022

One day in 1969, a working woman by the name of Zelda D'Aprano took her lunch break, and proceeded to chain herself to the front door of a busy building in Melbourne's CBD in a protest that caused a sensation.

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History Nerd out - Is Scott Morrison Australia's worst PM ever?

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Goodbye 2021 with ACTU President Michele O'Neil

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The story of the Ludlow Massacre

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