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Night-cart men and lion tamers once worked in Melbourne. Find out more about rare jobs from the past
Here are some photos from The Age’s archives of people performing rare and unusual jobs through the decades. Some no longer exist, while others have evolved.
- by Craig Butt
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Do You Earn Enough?
Jobs
Do you earn enough quiz: Which of these jobs earns the most?
Which job earns more on average out of a florist and a drycleaner? Test your knowledge of Sydney’s jobs landscape in our quiz.
- by Craig Butt
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Affordable housing
Essential service workers pushed to the fringes by housing crunch
Aged care workers, primary teachers, nurses, paramedics and police are being forced to Melbourne’s fringes by high housing costs, prompting warnings about worker shortages.
- by Josh Gordon and Craig Butt
Do You Earn Enough?
Jobs
Some jobs are so unusual, they’re not recognised by the ABS. Brianna’s is one of them
If you’ve never heard of aquarists, you’re not alone. They belong to one of Australia’s most unusual worker tribes.
- by Gemma Grant and Craig Butt
Bus drivers live in Forest Lake, lawyers in New Farm. So what suburb do architects call home?
Albany Creek is home to the most police officers, Camp Hill has the most footballers and Sunnybank Hills has the most dentists. What about your job and your suburb? Search our interactive to find out.
- by Craig Butt and Marissa Calligeros
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JobSeeker
Which suburb has the most teachers? Dentists? CEOs? Where to find Melbourne’s worker tribes
Brighton has the most CEOs, Kew has the most GPs, the CBD has the most waiters and Tarneit has the most truck drivers. Find out where the most people who do the same job as you live in our tour of Melbourne’s worker tribes.
- by Craig Butt
Explained: How we compiled detailed data for 1000+ jobs
How we built an interactive tour or every job in every suburb – from accountants to zookeepers, doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers and even goat farmers.
- by Craig Butt
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Sydney, do you earn enough?
Do you earn enough? A data-driven deep dive into your job, your salary and your suburb – right across NSW.
Keeping the faith: These religious groups are flourishing as atheism takes hold
In a series, The Age explores why Christianity is declining and atheism is growing, while the faithful flock to Pentecostal megachurches, temples and mosques.
- by Melissa Cunningham and Craig Butt
‘I have this purpose’: Why Islam is one of Victoria’s fastest-growing religions
In a series, The Age is exploring how Victoria’s religious communities are keeping the faith in an increasingly secular Australia.
- by Melissa Cunningham
The flocks of these faiths are expanding as Australians turn their back on the church
In the suburbs, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism are flourishing as Christianity plummets in a society with more atheists than ever.
- by Melissa Cunningham