Coming Up: Monday May 6, 2023   
Broadcast Mon 6 May 2024 at 9:35pm


Coming Up: Monday May 6, 2023



What’s the future of work?

COVID disrupted the office and accelerated the transition to hybrid working. Full-time remote working is a reality for some, but there’s a tension in some corporates who want staff back in the office at least a few days a week. 

For many Australians, WFH isn’t an option, entrenching social and economic divides between those who can and those who can’t. How will technological advances and the rise of artificial intelligence further exacerbate those differences? 

What are Australia’s labour advantages – and vulnerabilities – as an unstable world threatens international supply chains? And is the federal government’s new ‘made in Australia’ pitch, promising billions of dollars to rebuild manufacturing capacity, smart economics or extravagant protectionism?

Q+A is live from Melbourne on Monday, May 6 at 9.35pm AEST.



On the Panel

Tony Burke
Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations and Minister for the Arts

Tony Burke is the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for the Arts, and Leader of the House in the House of Representatives. He was a minister in the Rudd, Gillard and Rudd governments from 2007 until 2013, responsible at different times for Agriculture, Sustainability and Environment, and Immigration.


Paul Fletcher
Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy

Manager of Opposition Business in the House, Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy, and Shadow Minister for Science and the Arts, Paul Fletcher has been the member for Bradfield since 2009.


Sally McManus   
Secretary, ACTU

ACTU Secretary Sally McManus has played a central role in the Australian union movement's advocacy for better pay and conditions for working people. Sally is the 10th elected ACTU Secretary in the organisation's 90-year history and the first woman to hold the prestigious position. Sally was previously an ACTU vice-president.


Dominic Price
Work Futurist, Atlassian

Dominic is proud to work at Atlassian, where he’s spent 10 years helping teams unleash their potential in how they work. As their resident Work Futurist Dominic is Atlassians in house “Team Doctor” helping distributed teams at Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective. He also spends over half his time helping our customers navigate transformation, agility, leadership, and the future of work.


Carolyn Creswell
As an 18-year-old university student, Carolyn founded Carman’s in 1992 when she bought the small muesli business she was working at for $1,000. Three decades on, Carman’s has become a favourite brand and market leader, known for consistent innovation and continuous improvement.

Should be interesting I think.  One labor, one liberal, and the ACTU secretary Sally McManus.  Two other people.   

whiteknight wrote on May 6^th, 2024 at 7:34pm:




YOU watch it, pal.
Take a bullet for the rest of us.

Bobby. wrote on May 6^th, 2024 at 10:27pm:


Blame Hamas - Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties in a densely populated urban environment in which many civilians are participating..... and it is costing young Israeli lives - as opposed to just flattening the joint and getting it over fast.

**coughs** a gate is now opened by Israel for those wanting to escape the fighting - as long as they bring no weapons and are not suspicious characters.  The risks of even letting them close to check points is immense given the propensity of some to suicide vests and such....

The future of work - well - saw an article saying that Gen Z would start to be laid off due to AI.  When they said decades ago that machines would take over the work and we would all have more leisure time, they didn't tell anyone that for many it was a permanent holiday in Tent City.  The powers-that-be also didn't work out that a viable economy requires a viable average income, and they failed to set up a Living Wage No Work system (though the Abestinians are trying it on now - they're always the first guinea pigs in any social experiment).  Might as well have been a dole bludger surfer for a lifetime, eh?

Now then - let them eat cake?    This is the stuff of revolutions until  smart bosses suddenly realise that they've killed their own market for their machine-produced goods, and now - well the old 'flog  it off to the Third World' idea has failed - the Third World is doing all the producing of hard goods... the West is playing the 'feelings' game.... started with the feminists you know - "if you FEEL oppressed, you ARE oppressed" .... morphed into:- "if you feel you are a victim of AV/DV - you ARE and can get sanctions against innocents as a result to push along your social agenda of feminist hegemony and supremacy" ...

This is the life:-



The Madness ... The Madness!!  Country's gone to the dogs, you know...