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March 8, 2021Episodes, news, Season Five Stories

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.
ChangeMakers Podcast · Sexual Assault - IWD ChangeMaker Special
March 2, 2021ChangeMaker Chats, news

Jean Hinchliffe – ChangeMaker Chat

What does it take for a teenager to turn into a planet defender? Jean Hinchliffe is a climate campaigner and a new author of activist handbook Lead the Way. Today she talks about her activist journey and the lessons she has learnt about making powerful change.
ChangeMakers Podcast · Jean Hinchliff - ChangeMaker Chat
February 24, 2021news

ChangeMakers’ Essential Listens

It’s February and the year has properly started. We know you are probably thinking – ‘gosh I really wish I could get some more inspiration for these tricky times.’ Don’t […]
November 30, 2020ChangeMaker Chats, news

Michelle Meagher Change Maker Chat

The power of our largest corporations is all around, but what happens if a corporate foot soldier decides – “enough.” Then uses her inside knowledge to teach people like you […]
November 23, 2020ChangeMaker Chats, news

Adam Barbanel-Fried Change Maker Chat

Can we use old social change strategies like one to one relationships to make electoral politics different? Adam Barbanel-Fried and his organisation Changing the Conversation Together did exactly this in […]
November 16, 2020news, Series Four Stories

#30 Kabul Peace House

During the 2000s, in the mountains of central Afghanistan, a remarkable but unlikely peace movement began. How did they even define peace in a place beset by war, and how […]
October 14, 2020news

How the US Election is all about Community Organising

While the drama of the President’s coronavirus diagnosis, “Red Mirages and Blue Shifts” and stolen postboxes are catching the headlines in the US Elections, it is community organising that is […]
October 12, 2020ChangeMaker Chats, news

Steve Killelea Change Maker Chat

ChangeMakers Podcast · Steve Killelea – ChangeMaker Chat Steve Killelea is one of Australia’s most successful businessmen and a self-described peace maker! In this Chat we talk about why he […]
October 6, 2020news

We need a Real Deal from the Australian Budget

It’s budget day. While traditionally a nerd’s holiday – this budget matters. Globally nations are slipping into depression. In Australia unemployment is as high as it’s been since the Great […]
September 28, 2020news

We’ve all been in this together. Now let’s get out of it together.

As the pandemic descended on Australia we were told that we were ‘all in this together.’ For a time, politicians lived up to that. Political leaders reached across partisan divides […]