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:


Still waiting for the show to go on.

Published: 07/03/2021

For tens of thousands of Australian artists and performers, their livelihoods came to a screeching halt when COVID19 struck in early 2020.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


Closing the gender pay gap – there’s an app for that

Closing the gender pay gap – there’s an app for that

Published: 05/03/2021
Category: On The Job

Like most women, speaker and journalist Meggie Palmer felt frustrated when confronted with gender pay gap data. But within the disheartening stats, she also saw possibility.

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Aged care report demands swift reforms

Aged care report demands swift reforms

Published: 02/03/2021
Category: On The Job

When it comes to looking after our elders, Australia simply must do better. That was the powerful theme that emerged from the report from the Royal Com-mission into aged care released on Monday.

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Serving up abuse and exploitation – Australian horticulture’s dark secret

Serving up abuse and exploitation – Australian horticulture’s dark secret

Published: 01/03/2021
Category: On The Job

Australian dinner plates are carrying an uncomfortable secret. The abundance of high quality, relatively cheap fruit and vegetables that we are serving up at mealtimes comes at a much higher price to those whose job it is to harvest it.

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Need a pay rise? There’s an app for that!

Published: 28/02/2021

The gender pay gap is not going to shift itself, and that’s why Meggie Palmer created PepTalkHer.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


It’s time to disrupt the normalisation of sexual harassment in the workplace

It’s time to disrupt the normalisation of sexual harassment in the workplace

Published: 25/02/2021
Category: On The Job

Hospo Voice activist Grace Dowling has a clear message when it comes to sexual harassment in the workplace, “Just because it's everywhere, just because it's common, just because it's rife, doesn't mean it's fine.”

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Sexual harassment in the workplace a structural problem

Published: 24/02/2021
Category: On The Job

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UK Uber ruling a huge win for workers

Published: 24/02/2021
Category: On The Job

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We need to talk about Sexual Assault

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