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ChangeMakers
The ChangeMakers Podcast tells stories of people changing the world.We produce ChangeMaker Chats with people who share why and how they make change, and we also do documentary style episodes about change making campaigns. W known change makers like the 2019 Hong Kong Protesters, Standing Rock activi...
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Denis Ginnivan - ChangeMaker Chat - Voices for Australia
In Australia, since 2012 there has been an explosive growth in community independents who have been challenging the two-party system and bringing new...
Vic McEwan - ChangeMaker Chat - Socially-Engaged Arts Practice
When millions of fish died overnight in Menindee in western NSW, the community came together to mourn, interpret and respond to what had happened thro...
Fatima Payman - Gaza and the Labor Party
Senator Fatima Payman was the first hijab wearing member of parliament representing the Australian Labor Party and in 2024 she was removed from the AL...
Brendan McCormak - ChangeMaker Chat - Co-design
There is a lot of talk about co-design and community engagement in research and public policy - but in practice a lot of that talk ends up looking lik...
Alexandra Pineros Shields - ChangeMaker Chat - the People vs ICE
The second Trump Administration has brought with it an unprecedented attack on migrants, led by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) focused...
Rebecca McNaught - ChangeMaker Chat - Community Response to Climate Disaster
Climate change has led the Northern Rivers has been inundated by flood and flood threats, but it has also shown Australia - and the world - what it lo...
Amanda Tattersall - ChangeMakers Speech - how living with mental illness teaches us about making a difference
On the Winter Solstice in 2025 Amanda spoke at an event in Albury held to raise awareness about Mental Illness and Suicide. She shared about her story...
Terri Janke - ChangeMaker Chat - Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property
In light of the release of Victoria's landmark truth telling inquiry, we are re-releasing this important ChangeMaker Chat with Terri Janke, one of Aus...
Scaling Change Big and Small - Amanda Tattersall
On Saturday 21 June, ChangeMakers Host Amanda Tattersall is speaking at the Winter Solstice Event in Albury organised by the Survivors of Suicide & Fr...
Love and Power - ChangeMaker Chat - Ending Violence against Women #ICYMI
This is a re-release of an important conversation with the remarkable UK organisation called Love and Power, that is seeking to respond to violence ag...
Ed Miliband - ChangeMaker Chat - Big Politics #ICYMI
With all the tumult in UK and global politics, and the new Labor victory in Australia, we are re-releasing an episode with UK Labour Party Cabinet Min...
Dan Honig - ChangeMaker Chat - Mission-driven bureacrats
Too often, when we think of public servants we think of paper shufflers and number crunches. But nurses, teachers and care workers as well as officers...
What changes and what stays the same
With a Federal Election almost upon us - this is one we recorded earlier (#ICYMI) - a long form audio essay about the refugee politics of 20 years ago...
Michael Bradley - ChangeMaker Chat - Lawyers
Can lawyers really be change makers?
We talk with Michael Bradley who has taken on Murdoch as well as defending the rights of refugees about wha...
Anand Giridharadas - ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI - Persuaders
This is a re-run episode recorded in 2024 - importantly - before the 2024 Presidential Election, but its insights and lessons about ChangeMaking are s...
Wenn Lawson - ChangeMaker Chat - Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity #ICYMI
The Disability Movement famously argues ‘nothing about us without us.’ Wenn Lawson lives this creed as a world leading autistic advocate and researche...
Sami Shah - ChangeMaker Chat - News Satire
Can you make a difference by being funny? In this episode news satirist and stand up comedian Sami Shah takes us through the art of political satire a...
Lyndy McIntyre - ChangeMaker Chat - Living Wages
In a world where everyone is worried about cost of living – what difference would it make to lift the wages of the lowest paid workers?
Lyndy Mc...
Grace Tame - ChangeMaker Chat - #ICYMI
Welcome back to ChangeMakers Podcast for 2025! It certainly feels like this is a big year for thinking creatively and deeply about how to make the wor...
Nick Bryant - ChangeMaker Chat - Lessons from the US Election
The whole world has just witnessed President Trump getting re-elected, but what is the long story behind what happened.
In this chat, our last f...
Dave Sweeney - ChangeMaker Chat - No Nuclear Campaigner #ICYMI
Dave Sweeney has spent much of his life campaigning against the use of nuclear materials. For his efforts working with a group of colleagues at ICAN -...
What happened at the NSW Drug Summit last time? #ICYMI
In NSW Australia there is a Drug Summit underway. It is exploring better ways to respond to the experience and effects of substance use. This episode...
Chrisann Jarrett - ChangeMaker Chat - We Belong
Its easy to think that the problems in our lives are all our fault. But some of the time - indeed much of the time - our problems also come from publi...
Patrick Vernon - ChangeMaker Chat - Inside and Outside Strategy
In this chat celebrated UK community leader Patrick Vernon shares a series of stories about how he has learnt to combined the strengths of putting pre...
Nkosikhona Swaartbooi - ChangeMaker Chat - Reclaim Mother City
This episode is a tour de force in the art of change making and the Black history of housing activism in Cape Town. Nkosikhona Swaartbooi has been a l...
Jarrod Wheatley - ChangeMaker Chats - Relational Care
Our governments play a role in providing care and support to families and kids - but we don't often think about how those services are provided and wh...
Indivisible #ICYMI
In the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we bring you a another story of hope - abou...
Moz Azimitabar - ChangeMaker Chat - Art and Making Change
Moz Azimitabar is one of Australia’s most celebrated emerging artists, having been a finalist in the Archibald Prize twice. But Moz is not like other...
Scaling Change - Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small #ICYMI
This week we get a little personal and our host shares some of her experiences about making change.
How can we hold together big ambition for so...
Matthew McGregor - ChangeMaker Chat - Post-Election Strategy
How do elections and new governments change how we make change?
In the wake of the election of a new Labour Government in the UK, we talk with M...
Rathana Chea - ChangeMaker Chat - Diversity and Climate
There is a lot of talk about the need for diversity, but what does diversity actually mean?
In this conversation Rathana Chea shares how he has...
UK Election Special - ChangeMaker Chat - participation and elections
In this special UK national election episode we are joined by Marc Stears from UCL Policy Lab and Martha MacKenzie from Civic Power to talk about the...
Tina Rothery - ChangeMaker Chat - Nanas against Fracking
The UK’s Nana’s against Fracking are a grassroots movement that spread across regional UK communities to stop gas fracking. The movement was led by a...
Samuel Chu - ChangeMaker Chat - Anti-Authoritarianism
How on earth can any of us challenge might of authoritarian government? Samuel Chu has been contesting government over-reach and human rights abuses i...
Love and Power - ChangeMaker Chat - Ending Violence against Women
While we know that too many women live with the ever-present threat of violence our societies seem to struggle with what to do about it. While we have...
Andrew Denton - ChangeMaker Chats - Laugh till you die
If you are in Australia you probably know of Andrew Denton the comedian, but did you know he is also a highly successful changemaker?
In this c...
Mona Bani - ChangeMaker Chat
Mona grew up as a child of refugees fleeing political persecution. Now as an adult in the UK, she has created a new kind of organisation - Revoke - to...
Anand Giridharadas - ChangeMaker Chat - 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...
Nick Kimber - ChangeMaker Chat - Relationship-based bureacrat
What would it mean if we had local authorities and councils that saw their mission as building relationships with the communities they serve? This wee...
Anat Shenker-Osorio - ChangeMakers Chat - Art of Communication
Today we talk with one of the world's leading communication specialists for progressive change. Anat Shenker-Osorio has spend decades working with com...