Recent Posts
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Max Chandler-Mather – ChangeMaker Chat – Organising in Elections
In the 2022 Australian Federal Election the Greens won an unprecedented number of seats in Queensland – producing what came to be known as the “Green Wave.” Max Chandler-Mather was […]
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Thomas Mayo – ChangeMaker Chat – Voice To Parliament
Australia is in the middle of a national conversation that could transform our relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. But how much do you know about the long […]
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Bill McKibben – ChangeMaker Chat – Climate Agitator #ICYMI
Few people have been as effective at agitating for a stronger climate and environment movement as Bill McKibben. He has consistently pushed new strategies and thinking in the battle to […]
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Grace Tame – ChangeMaker Chat – the challenges of making change
Australian of the Year Grace Tame talks with us about her journey into change making and the challenges she has encountered. She talks about the power of even small action, […]
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Claire O’Rouke – ChangeMaker Chat – Climate Action
Today we talk with Claire O’Rouke – a former journalist, climate campaigner and author of Together We Can – about the diverse and creative grassroots movement of people around Australia […]
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Amanda McKenzie – ChangeMaker Chat – Climate Communicator
What do former Fire Chief Greg Mullins and Australian Cricket Captain Pat Cummins have in common? They both want action on climate change and they have both worked with Amanda […]
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Karen Iles – ChangeMaker Chat – Police & Sexual Assault
Karen Iles is long time social changemaker, lawyer and victim survivor of aggravated sexual assault when she was a child. As a young adult she went to the police to […]
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Jon Alexander – ChangeMaker Chat – Citizen Story
Modern society tells subtle but powerful stories that shape how we think about how we should live together, make decisions together and what we should value. Jon Alexander has identified […]
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Jackie Turner – ChangeMaker Chat – Trans Movement
There is a powerful movement led for and by the trans and gender diverse community building in Australia – and today’s ChangeMaker Chat is with one of its founders. Jackie […]
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Aminata Conteh-Biger – ChangeMaker Chat – Racism and change making
Today’s podcast looks at racism in the not for profit world. Aminata Conteh-Bigher has an extraordinary story; having developed powerful leadership qualities in Sierra Leonne civil war forced her to […]
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Terri Janke – ChangeMaker Chat – True Tracks
Terri Janke is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lawyer who uses the law to protect and advance Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property. As a Meriam and Wuthathi woman who […]
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US Democracy on the Ballot: #ICYMI young people voting for their lives
In the US midterm elections, one of the extraordinary outcomes was how many young people turned their back on some of the more extreme candidates that denied the 2020 election […]
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Fearless Cities and the Political Parties of Barcelona – ICYMI
The city of Barcelona has lived with an unprecedented housing crisis, and in its wake the city created a new kind of radical and successful political party. Former housing activist […]
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Jane McAlevey – ChangeMaker Chat – Union organising
Jane McAlevey is a fierce advocate for winning social change through organising. Her organising method, grounded in decades of experience, mentorship and the battles of many movements across US history, […]
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Daniel Mulino – ChangeMaker Chat – Welfare State
One of the biggest challenges facing any change maker is how to enlist help from the state, especially when it comes to the fight for economic justice. Australian Labor Party […]
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Fleeing For Your Life – A different approach to refugees
In too many wealthy countries – political leaders are choosing harsher and harsher policies when it comes to refugees. But there is one country that has decided to treat refugees […]
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Amanda Tattersall – ChangeMaker Chat – with Muslim Women Australia
In this ChangeMaker Chat the tables are turned and the person being interviewed is our host Amanda Tattersall. This is an interview previously recorded as part of the On Purpose […]
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The Biggest 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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Katerina Gaita – ChangeMaker Chat – Community Independents
How on earth did all those community independents win seats in the May 2022 Election? This ChangeMaker Chat talks to Katerina Gaita the Field Organiser and Volunteer Coordinator for Zoe […]
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Ruchira Talukdar – ChangeMaker Chat – Global Climate Justice
While the world is striving to stop catastrophic climate change, there is plenty of conflict over how climate campaign goals are chosen and the language that is used to express […]
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Liz Pellicano – ChangeMaker Chat – Co-design
Lots of people say they co-design research and policy with communities, but how do you know when co-design is being done well (and when it isn’t)? We talk to one […]
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Bill McKibben – ChangeMaker Chat – Climate Writer and Fighter
This week we interview one of the world’s leading climate action warriors, Bill McKibben. Bill began as a writer, where his passion for the story and his love of nature […]
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Osmond Chiu – ChangeMaker Chat – Diversity and Party Politics
Australian party politics can seriously lack diversity. This conversation is about how that can be changed. Osmond Chiu has been pushing to increase cultural diversity in the Australian Labor Party […]
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Peter Shergold – ChangeMakerChats – Public Servants
In what ways are public servants ChangeMakers, and how can advocacy groups build more powerful relationships with them? This chat is with one of Australia’s most senior former public servants […]
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Nick Haines – ChangeMaker Chats – Independents and Elections
The 2022 Australian Election is all about the Independent ‘Teal’ Candidates – but where did this Independent movement come from? Today we talk with Nick Haines, Voices for Indi activist, […]
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People power and Elections Part I
This is the first of two episodes about people power in election campaigns. Today we feature a campaign by the Australian digital campaign group GetUp. This independent community movement worked […]
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Where the statues fell first #RhodesMustFall
Across the world statues and symbols dedicated to slave owners and colonialists are being removed. But before that movement started in the United States and the United Kingdom, it began […]
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ChangeMaker Chat – Joshua Ross – Venture Philanthropy and money for good
What would it take for the goodies of the world to have a growing, exponential set of resources to finance how we make change? Josh Ross explores the idea of […]
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Inside Russia’s brave protest movement
Resistance to the war in Ukraine is strong, in Ukraine and alsoin Russia. This episode is about a housing campaign by Russian dissidents recorded in 2017. These families came together […]
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Wenn Lawson – ChangeMaker Chat
The Disability Movement famously argues ‘nothing about us without us.’ Wenn Lawson lives this creed as a world leading autistic advocate and researcher who has helped change how we understand […]
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Mostafa (Moz) Azimitabar – ChangeMaker Chats
Australia locks up asylum seekers if they attempt to get here by boat. But the refugees that have been subject to indefinite detention on Manus Island and in Australian hotels […]
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The Art of Politics: reflections on the Australian Labor Party, Refugees and Climate Change
Examining the tough relationships between mainstream progressive parties and movements in Australia, host Amanda Tattersall looks back at her own experience. She tells the story of the 2001-2004 refugee movement’s […]
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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.