What may be a few easy taps on your phone to order takeout straight to your door, can be a treacherous and sometimes life-threatening trek for food delivery drivers. On average, one food delivery rider dies in Australia every fortnight. Five delivery riders have died nationally in the past nine weeks, four of them in Sydney.

 

The latest tragedy involved a 37-year-old UberEats cyclist from Malaysia, who died after being hit by a truck last week. What is being done to protect our delivery riders? Who’s responsible for making sure drivers receive proper training? 

 

To answer these questions, we're joined by Delivery rider Ash, who was injured on the job last year and Joellen Riley Munton, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney who says food delivery drivers are 21st century chimney sweeps.

 

In today's headlines:

• China doubles down over "appalling" fake image of Australian soldier
• Qantas axes 2000 baggage handlers, plane cleaners, ground crew
• Victoria’s hotel quarantine program to restart
• Charges laid over White Island tragedy

 

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