Podcast Workers Australia is a community striving to create a fairer podcast industry.
Our members undertake roles across the industry and include producers, sound designers, hosts and audio engineers. We represent podcast professionals whose work includes some of the country’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed and widely listened to audio programmes. We represent workers who are freelance or contracted, part-time, full-time, casual or between gigs.
We are working together to advocate for an industry in which podcast professionals are fairly compensated, have better working conditions, and can build sustainable careers.
When you join this community, you’re supporting a fairer podcast industry.
Organising Committee
Podcast Workers Australia is organised by democratically-elected Community Organisers who volunteer their time on an unpaid basis.
Current Community Organisers
Regina Botros is a freelance audio producer and storyteller working across radio, podcasting, stage, film, and print since the early 2000s. She’s produced for ABC Radio National, BBC, 2SER and FBi Radio among others. Her work has been recognised by the New York Radio Awards, Newcastle Writers Competition, and Third Coast Audio Festival. Regina lectures in podcasting at the University of Sydney and produces Fully Lit, an Impact Studios’ (UTS) podcast celebrating Australian writing.
Lawrence Bull makes freelance audio documentaries, and makes podcasts part-time at 2ser in Eora/Sydney. He has experience on both sides of freelance work – working and hiring. He believes that the craft of podcasting is currently poorly understood and underappreciated by employers, and organising in solidarity is essential to acquiring fair pay and conditions.
Sammy Perryman is a Naarm/Melbourne based multi-media maker with a love for audio production and sound design. They have been involved in community broadcasting for many years and more recently have started working for independent podcasts as a freelance editor. Sammy is interested in understanding how to collectively organise for a fair and equitable podcasting industry at a time when the nature of work is increasingly casualised and isolated.
Jon Tjhia works through radio and podcast, literature, photomedia, music and publishing. He’s a founding member of Access Lab & Library, the Manus Recording Project Collective and Paper Radio. Jon has been involved from the early stages of PWA and is increasingly convinced that accuracy, aesthetic specificity, labour conditions and equity are a package deal.
Our Members
- Helen Kempton
- Ky Garvey
- Paul Horan
- Suzanne Derry
- Marika Proctor Kaldas
- Sue Ahearn
- Felicity Weaver
- Oli Seymour
- Rosa Ellen
- Zac Pennington
- Ramon Briant
- Kwame Slusher
- Andrei Tarca
- Bernice Galang
- Rah Gardiner
- Ross Manuel
- Sammy Perryman
- Adair Sheppard
- Helene Thomas
- Shevonne Hunt
- Emily Perkins
- Justin McArthur
- Anthony Dockrill
- Rosa Serret
- Francisco Lopez
- Lea Redfern
- Josh Brennan
- Bronwin Patrickson
- Lyndal Rowlands
- Daniel Bacchieri
- James Milsom
- Ian Walker
- Bindi Heit
- Jaye Kranz
- Alex Amster
- Lindsey Green
- Josh Butt
- Myoung Jae Yi
- Rob kaldor
- Bonnie Lavelle
- Xander Cross
- Chiara Kemp
- Max Gosford
- Belinda Lopez
- Ruth De Souza
- Darius Kedros
- Sana Qadar
- Jacob Round
- Jack Traynor
- Bethany Atkinson-Quinton
- Dan Schulz
- Liz Clarkson
- Louise Poole
- Lia Tsamoglou
- Karly Nimmo
- Zacha Rosen
- Jane Curtis
- Mike Williams
- Jon Tjhia
- Michael Green
- Nick King
- Michelle Ransom-Hughes
- Leith Alexander
- Pariya Taherzadeh
- Cinnamon Nippard
- David McDonald
- Sarah Bacaller
- Megan Spencer
- Joanne Helder
- Mell Chun
- Phoebe Adler-Ryan
- Greg Roberts
- Rachel Sibley
- Peter Wolodzko
- Travis Holland
- Catherine Harris
- Nicola Harvey
- Will Clark
- Jeannine Baker
- Shirley Wang
- Rosa Ellen
- Thomas Phillips
- Ray Vo
- Regina Botros
- Achala Datar
- Ajay Kumar Kattamuri
- Nance Haxton
- Kathrine Baldishol
- Ciara Duffy-Quinn
- Sam Blacker
- Ethan Kavanagh
- Alyssa Partington
- Libby Noble
- Chery Gladman
- Josh Newth
- Lucia Tuong Vy Nguyen
- Thomas Phillips
- Shareeka Helaluddin
- Nathanael Little
- Loretta Hart
- Erielle Sudario
- Lisa Taylor
- Cara O’Brien
- Natasha Mitchell
- Miko Santos
- Sarah Mashman
- Roslyn Oades
- Masako Fukui
- Kyle McAuliffe Cronin
- Ali Aitken
- Rhys Gunter
- Josh Liston
- Elise Bradshaw
- Ali Lemer
- Phil Horn
- Holly Mitchell
- Jess O’Callaghan
- Harry Hughes
- Nic Huntington
- Myjanne Jensen
- Claudia Craig
- Siobhan McHugh
- Caroline Winter
- James Milsom
- Emily Naismith
- Daniel Semo
- Kate Lawrence
- Janak Rogers
- Laura Corrigan
- Michelle Macklem
- James Parkinson
- Amelia Navascues
- Ed Gooden
- Jeremy Wilmot
- Jay Gasser
- Karla Arnall
- Camilla Hannan
- Celine Teo-Blockey
- Catherine Green
- Kyle Hopkins
- Nicole Curby
- Elle Marsh
- Sam Loy
- Andrea Ho
- Giulia Vecchio
- Daniel Burdon
- Sean Holden
- Stephanie Corsetti
- Sam Quigley
- Sian Gard
- Adam Christou
- Laura Brierley Newton
- Eugene Yang
- Martin Franklin
- Cheryl Northey
- Catarina Fraga Matos
- Tina Matolov
- Rebecca Graham
- Fatima El-Assaad
- Edgar Andres Florez Caro
- Colm McNaughton
- Kieran Ruffles
- Melanie Bakewell
- Nicola Harvey
- Leoniel Degoro
- Jac Lauren
- Morven McIntyre
- Evrim Sen
- Martin Franklin
- Lyndal Harris
- Craig Garrett
- Margaret Paton
- Layla Palmer
- Evan Munro-Smith
- Maria Stoljar
- Cherie Holland
- Sophie Ellis
- Anna Priestland
- Rowena Murray
- Sarah Steel
- Rebecca Maakasa
- Simon Beaton
- Mike Liberale
- Darren Scarce
- Danni Stewart
- Julia Carr-Catzel
- Claudianna Blanco
- Elise Cooper
- Tiffany Dimmack
- Kaspar Visser
- Mia Lindgren
- David Schreurs
- Lem Zakharia
- Paul Horan
- Lawrence Bull
- Claire Murphy
- Alice Garner
- Romy Sher
- Gretchen Miller
- Shiv Sumer
- Corey Green
- Mic Cavazzini
- Ryan Pemberton
- Courtney Carthy
- Lindsey Green
- Jennifer Macey
- Lisa Divissi
- Cheyne Anderson
- Linda Bonney
- Keeshia Pettit
- Caddie Brain
- Alex Tighe
- Olivia Rosenman
- Ian Curr
- Deb Groarke
Rate Card
In order to create fair compensation and support the growth of the Australian podcast industry, Podcast Workers Australia has established a new industry standard for podcast rates. These standards aim to ensure that freelancers working in podcasting receive equitable compensation for their knowledge, valuable contributions and expertise.
Contact
Email: podcastworkersaus (at) gmail (dot) com
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