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The World Cup and lessons about making change – ChangeMakers Digest
Reflecting on what our enthusiasm for football can teach us about public life
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Anna Funder – ChangeMaker Chat – How writing makes a difference
What the art of story-telling can teach us about how to make change.
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Leisel Jones – Changemaker Chat – Speaking up for Mental Health
The darker story behind Olympic pressure
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Can you make change by knocking off a leader – ChangeMakers Digest
Watching what happened in the UK - we digest the kind of change you can (and can't) make when you change leaders in organisations and parties
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Announcing: our host’s new books about ChangeMaking
Its a big year for our host: Amanda has two books coming out about ChangeMaking
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Daniel Nour – ChangeMaker Chat – Street Side Medics
What it takes to make something new - bringing healthcare to the people through mobile health units
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Hahrie Han – ChangeMaker Chat – Building a progressive ecosystem
Leading US democratic researcher shares lessons from the US for the UK Ecosystem Project
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Bhaskar Sunkara – Changemaker Chat – Jacobin and the US Democratic Socialists
Class, debate and radical ideas in the socialist movements emerging the US
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Antoinette Lattouf – ChangeMaker Chat – Women Who Win
We unpack Antoinette's new book about what women have to teach us about what it takes and what it means to win.
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Crystal Simeoni – ChangeMaker Chat – African women writing the story
The change that is possible when narratives like economics are grounded in the stories of our lives
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Sami Shah – ChangeMaker Chat – #ICYMI Change Making Comedy
When world leaders are ridiculous what does comedy have to offer?
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Mona Bani – ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI – War and Refugees
In a time of war – lets talk about the people who need seek refuge You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any […]
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Alex Kelly – ChangeMaker Chat – Climate disaster & storytelling
What can we learn when a communications expert becomes the climate story? You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, […]
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Michael Bradley – ChangeMaker Chat – Relational Lawyering #ICYMI
Can Lawyers be ChangeMakers? You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” […]
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Erik Peterson – ChangeMaker Chat – Minnesota vs ICE
Hear the stories behind the people's movement that is resisting Trump's domestic war machine
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Anat Shenker-Osorio – ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI – Persuasion Politics
The art of communications in progressive politics You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just […]
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Maurice Mitchell – ChangeMaker Chat – US and New Politics
The story behind the Working Families Party and the new urban politics in the US You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any […]
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Nick Bryant – ChangeMaker Chat – America the Long Story #ICYMI
A chat about the forever war that is US political life (recorded before Trump took office the second time!) You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or […]
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Denis Ginnivan – ChangeMaker Chat – Voices for Australia
You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the […]
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Vic McEwan – ChangeMaker Chat – Socially-engaged Arts Practice
Building community through creativity You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” […]
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Fatima Payman – Gaza and the Labor Party
The Senator who is challenging genocide and mainstream political parties at the same time
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Brendan McCormak – ChangeMaker Chat – Co-design
What it looks to do community engaged research for real!
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Alexandra Pineros Shields – ChangeMaker Chat – the People vs ICE
How communities in the US are organising themselves to resist attacks on migrants You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app […]
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Rebecca McNaught – ChangeMaker Chat – Community response to Climate
What the Northern River’s community teaches us all about responding to climate disaster You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app […]
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Amanda Tattersall – ChangeMakers Speech – how living with mental illness teaches us about making a difference
How living with mental illness teaches us about making a difference You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, […]
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Terri Janke – ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI – Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property
You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the […]
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Scaling Change Big and Small – ChangeMakers Episode for Winter Solstice
Recognising the Survivors of Suicide & Friends event in Albury 21 June You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, […]
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Love and Power – ChangeMaker Chat – Ending Violence against Women #ICYMI
How a group in the UK is ending violence differently and what we all can learn You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on […]
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Dan Honig – ChangeMaker Chat – Mission-driven bureacrats
You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the […]
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What changes and what stays the same?
Lessons from refugee policy and the Labor Party You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – […]
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Anand Giridharadas – ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI – Persuaders
What are some of the skills or insights shared by some of America’s extraordinary change makers, people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alicia Garza or Loretta Ross?
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Wenn Lawson – ChangeMaker Chat – Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity
One of Australia’s and the World’s leading autistic psychologists and advocates shares lessons about his life as an advocate You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or […]
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Sami Shah – ChangeMaker Chat – News Satire
Can comedy make a difference? You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers […]
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Grace Tame – ChangeMaker Chat – #ICYMI from 2023
You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the […]
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Nick Bryant – ChangeMaker Chat – Lessons from the US Election
Being a Foreign Correspondence and the art of changing how we think about countries You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast […]
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Dave Sweeney – ChangeMaker Chat – No Nuclear Campaigner
A life spent saving the world from nuclear disaster You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) […]
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What happened at the Drug Summit last time? #ICYMI
The story of the Fair Treatment Campaign by the Uniting Church You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, […]
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Chrisann Jarrett – ChangeMaker Chat – We Belong
Turning what feels like private pain into public action You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) […]
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Nkosikhona Swaartbooi – ChangeMaker Chat – Reclaim Mother City
Fighting for affordable housing and for desegregation at the same time You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, […]
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Jarrod Wheatley – ChangeMaker Chats – Relational Care
You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the […]
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Indivisible #ICYMI
You can listen to this episode on ACAST, or on all of the usual podcast apps – just search for “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the orange square! In the […]
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Moz Azimitabar – ChangeMaker Chat – Art and Making Change
Moz is an Archibald nominee and a refugee – we talk about the relationship between art and making change Listen to this episode on ACAST HERE, or on any of […]
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Scaling Change – Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small #ICYMI
You can listen to this episode via the ACAST link above or by searching “ChangeMakers Podcast” on any of the usual podcast apps and look for the orange square! This […]
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Matthew McGregor – ChangeMaker Chat – Post-election strategy
You can download this episode via the ACAST app HERE, or find us on all the podcast apps – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the orange square! How […]
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Rathana Chea – ChangeMaker Chat – Diversity and Climate
You listen to this episode on the ACAST app HERE, or search for us on all the usual podcast apps using “ChangeMakers Podcast” – look out for the Orange Square! […]
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UK Election Special – ChangeMaker Chat – participation and elections
You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – just search “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the […]
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Tina Rothery – ChangeMaker Chat – Nanas against Fracking
You can listen to this episode on ACAST here or on the player below, or by searching for “ChangeMakers Podcast” on any of the usual podcast apps (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher), […]
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Samuel Chu – ChangeMaker Chat – Anti-Authoritarianism
You can listen to the episode here on ACAST, or find it on any of the podcast apps – just search for “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the orange square! […]
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Love and Power – ChangeMaker Chat – Ending Violence against Women
You can find this episode on ACAST, or you can search for it on any of the podcast apps – just search for “ChangeMakers Podcast” and look for the orange […]
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Andrew Denton – ChangeMaker Chat – Laugh till you die
Leading the Australian campaign to change the law on Voluntary Assisted Dying You can find the episode on ACAST here or on all the usual podcast apps. If you are […]
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Mona Bani – ChangeMaker Chat – Revoke
UK Special: Organisations for refugees designed by refugees You can download this episode via the ACAST app here, or find it on any podcast app (Spotify, Apple, Stitcher etc) – […]
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Anand Giridharadas – ChangeMaker Chat – Persuaders
Lessons for building a movement for change from AOC to Alicia Garza You can listen to this episode on ACAST HERE, or on all the usual podcast apps. What are […]
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Nick Kimber – ChangeMaker Chat – Relationship-based bureacrat
Making places based on relationships You can find this episode on all the usual podcast apps, or listen to it on the ACAST podcast app/website here. What would it mean […]
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Anat Shenker-Osorio – ChangeMakers Chat – Art of Communication
A world leading communicator sharing lessons about how to communicate effectively for change You can find the podcast at ACAST here, or on all the usual podcast apps (date of […]
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Kim Loo – ChangeMaker Chat – Doctors and climate change
This episode is with Dr Kim Loo - a leading Australian community climate activist and local Sydney-based General Practitioner, who has connected her role as a community doctor and her passion for the natural world to make sure she is building a healthy community for us all.
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Brooklyn 99 – ChangeMakes #ICYMI – Using a Platform for Change
You can listen to it here on ACAST or on all the usual podcast apps. Just search “ChangeMakers Podcast.” As a tribute to the magnificent Andre Braugher and his alter […]
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Anhaar Kareem – ChangeMaker Chat – Give young people the vote
Make it 16 and the campaign to give young people the vote in Australia. The episode is on all the podcast apps, and can be heard on ACAST here. Today […]
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Emmanuel Gotora – ChangeMaker Chat – Organising and TELCO
The story behind 25 years of community organising in the UK Broad based organising in the United Kingdom has a long history – starting with the pioneering work of “TELCO” […]
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Jane McAlevey – ChangeMaker Chat – Union Organiser Extraordinaire
This episode is available on app the Podcast Apps and on ACAST – HERE. They say “don’t meet your heroes” but thankfully that isn’t always true. Jane McAlevey is one […]
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Chanel Contos – ChangeMaker Chat – Consent
You can find this episode on ACAST – and on all the podcast apps! Chanel Contos joins us on ChangeMakers to discuss her new book Consent Laid Bare and the […]
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Gloria Tabi – ChangeMaker Chat – Racial Equity
You can find this episode on ACAST and on all the podcast apps – apple, spotify, stitcher, pocket casts etc Let’s talk about race. In this chat Gloria Tabi shares […]
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Nikita Simpson – ChangeMaker Chat – Anthropologist
How does the kind of curiosity used in anthropology offer a way to make change? The episode is avalable on all the podcast apps, and on ACAST here. In this […]
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Elise Ganley – ChangeMaker Chat – Climate Transition
What would it take for communities reliant on fossil fuels to be leaders in the climate transition? In this chat Elise Ganley, the National Lead Organiser for the Real Deal […]
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Jacinta Dietrich – ChangeMaker Chat – Differently Brained
We are all different – but some of these differences are hard to see. That includes differences based on our neurodiversity or our mental health. This conversation is with Jacinta […]
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Nina Hall – ChangeMaker Chat – Digital Advocacy
If you are in Australia you might have heard of GetUp, or if you are in the United States you probably know about MoveOn – but you might not be […]
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Martha MacKenzie – ChangeMaker Chat – Organising Money for ChangeMaking
Making change is be invaluable, but without resources it is hard to do. This episode digs into the question of how to raise money to make changemaking happen. We talk […]
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Nick Haines – ChangeMaker Chat – Voices for Indi #ICYMI
It’s been one year since the Australian Federal Election that swooped an unprecedented number of community independents into the House of Representatives, and it’s been 10 years since that “Voices […]
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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.
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Introducing – ChangeMakers Digest, a new fortnightly podcast on ChangeMakers
We’re launching a new fornightly podcast called Changemakers Digest!