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:


Doug Cameron, former Senator and from the Glaswegian culture of collective and standing up for yourself

Published: 03/01/2021

A fitter by trade, Doug Cameron came to Australia at 22 years old, rose through the union ranks representing workers and gained preselection for the Australian Senate after Kevin Rudd came to power in 2007.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


2020 - The Year of the Nurse

Published: 27/12/2020

When the pandemic hit in March 2020 Annie Butler, Federal Secretary at the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, was at a conference in the UK.

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Meet the hardest working man in snow business

Published: 20/12/2020

It’s the Xmas edition of On the Job, so Francis and Sally meet the one person who is definitely happy to be working Xmas Day - Santa.

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New IR laws a “kick in the guts for young workers”

New IR laws a “kick in the guts for young workers”

Published: 17/12/2020
Category: On The Job

Director of the Young Workers Centre, Felicity Sowerbutts, says the Morrison Government’s newly introduced Industrial Relations laws are a “kick in the guts” for already vulnerable young workers.

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Clothing The Gap and the new IR bill

Clothing The Gap and the new IR bill

Published: 13/12/2020
Category: On The Job

This episode; a Victorian Aboriginal owned social enterprise that is a dynamic fashion label managed by health professionals and the Federal Government's latest industrial relations bill.

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Australian Unions have your back at work


Clothing The Gap

Clothing The Gap

Published: 13/12/2020
Category: On The Job

This episode; a Victorian Aboriginal owned social enterprise that is a dynamic fashion label managed by health professionals and the Federal Government's latest industrial relations bill.

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Clothing The Gap

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Richard Denniss on the job ahead and Sally McManus addresses the National Press Club

Published: 07/12/2020
Category: On The Job

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Richard Denniss on the job ahead and Sally McManus addresses the National Press Club

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