Building a fairer podcast industry
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
Michelle Macklem is a Naarm-based freelance sound designer, mix engineer and artist. Her passion for working with sound, listening and creating community led her to create the sound art collective Constellations, which curates a podcast, live events and community listening. She has been active in PWA since its creation and believes that organising is essential to building a fair and equitable podcast industry.
Ryan Pemberton is an Eora-based podcast producer and audio engineer. He currently works full-time as an audio engineer for iHeart Podcasts at ARN, but has spent many years freelancing as well. He started regularly attending PWA meetings in August 2023. He is motivated to contribute to PWA by a belief that the stronger our sense of community and solidarity as podcast workers becomes, the more power we have to advocate for better pay and conditions.
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.
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
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
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
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
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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