Tom Molomby was president of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Staff Association from September 1974 to October 1976. He was vice-president of the association during the period from October 1976 to March 1982, and president again from March 1982 to November 1984. He was staff-elected Director of the ABC Board of Management from November 1983 to June 1988. He became the founding producer and presenter of The Law Report, on Radio National. He is the author of four books on legal issues as well as Is There a Moderate on the Roof (1991), an account of his time as a director of the ABC. Since leaving the ABC he has practiced as a barrister while continuing as a writer.