Dyson began his radio career on Warrnambool community station
3WAY FM with
Tom Ballard. Dyson and Ballard began presenting
mid-dawn shifts for Australian youth radio station, Triple J in 2007 after program director, Chris Scaddan, saw Ballard perform stand-up comedy at
Raw Comedy. They made their transition to weekend radio in late 2008, taking over from
Sam Simmons. On 23 November 2009, Triple J announced that Ballard and Dyson would take over as hosts of the breakfast show in 2010, replacing
Robbie Buck,
Marieke Hardy and
Lindsay McDougall.
Matt Okine joined Dyson as co-host in January 2014 when Ballard left Triple J. During this period his audience of up to one million people heard Dyson interview a wide range of people including many up-and-coming Australian musicians, politicians such as Prime Minister
Julia Gillard, and worldwide celebrities including
Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2013 Dyson and Ballard won the
Aria award for Best Comedy Release with an album of extracts from their radio show called
The Bits we’re least ashamed of. On 21 November 2016, Triple J announced that Okine and Dyson would be leaving Triple J at the end of 2016. Dyson returned to Triple J as a temporary Lunch (Weekdays 12 - 3pm) host in 2018, while regular host Gen Fricker filled in for Veronica Milsom on Drive. In 2019, Dyson announced he was running in the seat of
Wannon for the
2019 Australian federal election. His campaign was brief but featured an unusual video where he presented his key policies via interpretive dance. The video received extensive media coverage both within Australia and internationally. Despite the limited campaign, Dyson secured 10.3% of the vote, despite the seat being classified as a safe Coalition seat since the 1970s. In 2020, just at the beginning of the
global COVID pandemic, Dyson opened a live comedy venue Comedy Republic . Dyson is the author of two books, a young adult fiction novel
When it Drops, released in 2020, and a children’s book
Eric the Awkward Orc, released in 2022.
When it Drops was awarded on the 2021 “Notable” list by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Dyson announced his candidacy for Wannon at the
2022 federal election on 7 January 2022, running on a platform of action on climate change, integrity and respect in Parliament, and investing in the regional economy. His candidacy was supported by Voices of Wannon, one of a substantial number of
grassroots community groups supporting independent candidates across Australia at the 2022 election. Dyson ended up narrowly losing to
Dan Tehan, securing 19.29% of the votes in the first preference count, and 46.08% of the votes in the two candidate preferred count. In August 2024 Dyson announced his intention to contest the seat of Wannon as an independent at the
2025 Australian federal election. He secured 31.38% of the first preference vote, mostly at the expense of Labor and the Greens, though fell short by 3.27% once preferences were distributed. ==Discography==