The Future of Work

Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is currently the presenter and producer of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National. 

Dr Greg Jericho is the Policy Director, Labour Market and Fiscal at the Centre for Future Work. Greg also writes a weekly column on economics and politics for The Guardian Australia, a position he has held since 2013.  

Sally McManus is the 10th Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and commenced work with them as an ACTU Trainee Organiser in 1994. McManus has also worked as a Pizza Hut delivery driver, shop assistant and cleaner, and studied Philosophy at University. Her first book is On Fairness. 

Alison Pennington is an economist, writer and media commentator who conducts research on economic issues facing working people including the future of jobs, skills and training, and the role of government. Pennington is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Politics, Philosophy and Economics with La Trobe University and previously held a role as Senior Economist with The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work. She recently published Gen F'd: How Young Australians can Reclaim their Uncertain Futures.

Ben Schneiders is an investigative journalist at The Age with a focus on workplace issues, politics, business and corruption. A Walkley award winner, he is a four-time winner of the Industrial Relations reporting award and author of the recently released book Hard Labour: wage theft in the age of inequality.