Recent Posts
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Stopping the Twitter Trolls
Four years ago on Invasion Day 2018 Tarneen Onus-Williams was relentlessly and violently trolled on Twitter for a speech she gave at a protest. Social media abuse tries to shut […]
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The Long Story of the Hong Kong Protests
The Hong Kong 2019 protests were some of the largest protests ever seen in the world, and they didn’t come from nowhere. This episode explains some of the history behind […]
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Addiction, drugs and the quest for Fair Treatment
The war on drugs has been a failed battle for decades. But what could we be doing differently? And what is a church doing running a facility where illegal drugs […]
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Christmas Spirit = Compassion for Refugees
No matter what your beliefs, the moral of the Bethlehem story is that when people are in need they need compassion. While Australia’s refugee policies have infrequently followed this, Australian […]
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Scaling Change – Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small
How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece […]
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The Best Climate Campaign You Have Never Heard Of
Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? Yes – the insurance industry. Over the past 5 years insurance has […]
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Climate Justice, Coalitions and Glasgow – ChangeMakers Podcast
If Glasgow tells us anything – the people of the world will need to keep coming together if the politicians of the world are to ever stop climate change. But […]
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ChangeMaker Chat – Meena Palaniappan – Digital ChangeMaking
Across her career Meena has led large-scale technological changemaking networks in the Global South. She has developed the resources that have allowed communities to work with each other to respond […]
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#ICYMI – Recalling the beginning of Covid and the early seeds of change
Covid has changed the world – not just the pandemic – but equally the challenges and changes to our human systems – how we relate and work together. We recorded […]
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Changemakers Organising School presents: People power & community organising
Changemakers Organising School presents a discussion on Thursday 8 April about people power and the vital role that community organising can play. Want to know more about different forms of […]
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Sexual Assault – IWD ChangeMaker Special
There is a sexual assault crisis in Australia right now. Today we have a special episode - a re-recorded speech that was delivered by host Amanda Tattersall to 500 year 9 and 10 female and male high school students at a public high school in Sydney’s inner West Sydney for its International Women’s Day Assembly.
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If all organising is disorganising and reorganising – let’s reorganise how we think about mental illness
By Amanda Tattersall. This speech was prepared for the Brain Difference Workshop held by the Sydney Alliance on 3 November 2021. I have walked a life living two identities. I […]