Retail rage
A recent study found almost nine of every 10 retail and fast food workers have been verbally abused. What does that mean for students juggling work and study? Madeline Bourn investigates.
Retail rage
A recent study found almost nine of every 10 retail and fast food workers have been verbally abused. What does that mean for students juggling work and study? Madeline Bourn investigates.
Backyards calling
With a recent study showing few musicians earn more than $10,000 per year, some are seeking innovative ways to make ends meet. Shaun Perry reports.
Waiting to be served with fairness
Ex-sales staff at a Melbourne shoe shop say they’re still feeling the pinch of exploitation and favouritism months after leaving the store. Dominic Rogers reports.
Low pay, long hours part and parcel of the postal round
Proverbially, ‘posties’ could be relied upon to deliver come rain, snow, sleet or hail. Now they carry an extra weight – the sense that their importance the community isn’t reflected in their pay. Brenna Dempsey reports.
Work in fright: assault in store on the ‘graveyard shift’
The need to earn enough to get by in a foreign land – Australia – is forcing international students to spend hours alone in a danger zone. Faraz Haider explains.
Clean up your act, says passion to power
Many, though not all, of today’s sex workers are legal – but still they don’t always feel the love. Hailey McKenzie reports in a series on undervalued and stigmatised work.
Carers of frail elderly say their own condition is critical
Aged-care staff have had a gutful of nursing their grievances. Lilly Sarafian explores what lies behind the latest eruption of industrial militancy in Australia’s healthcare sector.
Who’ll look after us when we are gone? They will
Funeral services today can unite the latest insights of psychology with the embalmer’s ancient art. But, as Zehra Basak learns, even professionals occasionally reach breaking point.
Clergy look out at empty pews but they’re not losing faith
That old-time religion has lost its appeal for more and more Australians, but one church minister says belief is about much more than ‘the Sunday show’. James Roddis reports.