Episode 8.1: Terry Riggs (Pt. 1)

Friday, 25 April 2025 - 5:30pm

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 Content Warning: this episode contains discussion of workplace fatalities.

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  Series 8, Episode 1:

 Terry Riggs started his stint in the industry in 1971 as a builders labourer. In the first interview of Series 8, Terry chats with Ralph about his experiences at from Sale & South Gippsland at Barry's beach, and riding his motorbike from Vic to northwest QLD, and WA, and back to South Gippsland. Terry worked for decades in all sorts of jobs across the country, and his thoughts about workplace custom and practice, scaffolding, and TAFE. 

Part Two of this interview will be published on Friday 9 May, or you can tune in to 3CR at 1pm on Thursday 1 May for an exclusive listen. Find more on our May Day 2025 coverage at 3cr.org.au/mayday2025

Creatures of the Industry
Sunday 9:30am to 10:00am
A project by the Concrete Gang, recording the history of the building and construction industry in Melbourne since the 1960s, as remembered by those who built this city and helped establish the industrial landscape we work in today.

Presenter

Ralph Edwards

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