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Decent work as a tool to stimulate economic growth is one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that sets by the United Nations. Taking into account that the non-standard employment is increasingly popular, the interest of the workers in this employment class must be equally protected. In the context of either employment law or human resource dimension, non-standard employment is not at all new because the issue has been commonly debated in many literatures since 1980s. Among the key features of non-standard employment are specified duration of service, non-permanent or temporary position, part-time or full-time status of job and flexible work arrangement. The scenario in Australia has shown that in parallel to the rapid popularity of non-standard employment, their labour law regimes also have been through all the necessary changes so that the laws adequately addressed the needs of these segments of workers. This article aims at reviewing the transformation of Australian labour law in general and at the same time, exploring some legal issues that have been debated for the interest of the non-standard workers. The author examines the framework of labor law ranging from 1990s to date by reviewing existing literature. In addition, the development of non-standard workers in Australia job industry will be looked into. Finally, the author outlines some aspects throughout the process of transformation of the Australian employment law that can be carefully considered and learned in our process of transforming the Malaysian employment law into a better set of law in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]