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:


Workers, Unions and the rise of Aussie Rules

Published: 25/09/2022

As another AFL season reaches its crescendo, it's an opportunity to reflect on how the Australian game has become such an extraordinary cultural phenomenon.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


Workers, Unions and the rise of Aussie Rules.

Published: 25/09/2022

As another AFL season reaches its crescendo, it's an opportunity to reflect on how the Australian game has become such an extraordinary cultural phenomenon.

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Why the right to disconnect matters to workers

Why the right to disconnect matters to workers

Published: 21/09/2022
Category: On The Job

Passion for your job can only take you so far though, so when your phone beeps late at night or you hear the ping of another email dropping into the inbox on the weekend, you start to wonder if it’s all worth it.

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Is your rental accommodation making you sick?

Published: 18/09/2022

Millions of Australian workers know what it's like to shiver through a winter in a rental property that is too cold, without enough heating, or is drafty or damp.

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Tuftmasters carpeted by union win

Tuftmasters carpeted by union win

Published: 14/09/2022
Category: On The Job

The bad faith negotiation tactic from Tuftmasters was an attempt to erode wages and conditions that union members had bargained for over decades, such as a redundancy agreement that provided three weeks pay per year of service.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


Qantas - the wounded Kangaroo

Published: 11/09/2022

For decades, Qantas was an institution that inspired a form of civic pride in most Australians.

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