Episode Details

Last year, I worked on an egg farm.

7am starts. No lunch break. One 15-minute smoko.

Lifting a tonne of eggs a day. Collecting dead birds.

Driving half an hour each way.

And I was being paid less than the minimum wage.

Not by accident.

Not cash-in-hand.

Legally.

In this episode, I walk through what it’s actually like to work under the pastoral award in Australia, where minimum wage isn’t always minimum, penalty rates don’t exist, and “fair go” starts to look more like a marketing slogan than a reality.

This isn’t a rant. It’s a field note.

From inside a system that most people don’t even know exists.

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note ~
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
Also, I swear.

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Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
https://ridleyfarmstudio.com...