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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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Writing and Making a Difference - ChangeMakeres Digest
In this digest Amanda and Samuel look at if and when writing and reading help us make a difference. Amanda shares some of her reflections in writing h...
Peter Garrett - ChangeMaker Chat - Rocking Politics
Peter Garrett was not only the lead singer for one of Australia's most iconic bands, he has spent his life trying to make a difference. He has achieve...
The World Cup and lessons about making change - ChangeMakers Digest
We jump on the World Cup band wagon to talk about what team support and our collective enthusiasm for it tells us about organisations, associational l...
Anna Funder - ChangeMaker Chat - How writing makes a difference
Anna Funder is one of Australia's most successful and accomplished writers. She has used her craft to explore power abuse and people's response, wheth...
Can you make change by knocking off a leader - ChangeMakers Digest
The Prime Minister of the Labour Party in the UK just resigned, and looks set to be replaced by Andy Burnham.
It got us thinking, what can you c...
Leisel Jones - Changemaker Chat - Speaking up for Mental Health
Leisel Jones is an Australian household name. She is a champion swimmer with 3 Olympic Gold medals and participated in four Olympics. In her post-Olym...
Daniel Nour - ChangeMaker Chat - Street Side Medics
Dr Daniel Nour considers himself an accidental change maker, but he is also a pretty prodigious one. A doctor, inspired by the health care that helped...
Daniel Nohr - ChangeMaker Chat - Street Side Medics
Dr Daniel Nohr considers himself an accidental change maker, but he is also a pretty prodigious one. A doctor, inspired by the health care that helped...
Hahrie Han - ChangeMaker Chat - Building a progressive ecosystem
Democracy is in trouble right now. In the US, Trump’s authoritarian impulses are closing over the checks and balances that used to make space for peop...
Introducing - ChangeMakers Digest
What is this?
Today we are releasing a new podcast format on the ChangeMakers Channel - the ChangeMakers Digest where we take an issue in the ne...
Bhaskar Sunkara - Changemaker Chat - Jacobin and the US Democratic Socialists
Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, US politics has polarised sharply - with the rise of Trump and right-wing populism, but also a renewed class-b...
Antoinette Lattouf - ChangeMaker Chat - Women Who Win
Antoinette Lattouf not only fought and won a battle against the ABC - who unfairly dismissed her for sharing posts about the genocide in Gaza - but wh...
Crystal Simeoni - ChangeMaker Chat - African women writing the story
Rules and assumptions like economics are far from natural or neutral. They are written by a certain group of people and serve a particular set of inte...
Sami Shah - ChangeMaker Chat - #ICYMI Change Making Comedy
When war mongering has reached a new level of absurdity, this week we are tuning into a chat we recorded last year with comedian Sami Shah about the c...
Mona Bani - ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI - War and Refugees
The world's attention is focused on War in Iran and across the Middle East, but less attention is being paid to the people who will have to uplift the...
Alex Kelly - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate disaster & Storytelling
Alex Kelly has been involved in climate and Indigenous campaigning and social change for decades - with a focus on communications, storytelling and th...
Michael Bradley - ChangeMaker Chat - Relational Lawyering #ICYMI
We talk with Michael Bradley who has taken on Murdoch as well as defending the rights of refugees about what it takes to be a lawyer and a change make...
Erik Peterson - ChangeMaker Chat - Minnesota vs ICE
Trump's abusive war against immigrants has been jailing children and extracting people's neighbours for years - but in Minnesota his abuses are being...
Anat Shenker-Osorio - ChangeMaker Chat #ICYMI - Persuasion Politics
For our last episode of 2025, we listen back to one of the leading communications specialists in US politics - Anat Shenker-Osorio. Lucky for listene...
Maurice Mitchell - ChangeMaker Chat - US and New Politics
When Zohran Mamdani voted in the New York Mayoral election last week he told the press that he followed the Working Families Party ticket. Who is the...
Nick Bryant - ChangeMaker Chat - America the Long Story #ICYMI
We have a chat with Radio Nation's Saturday Extra Host Nick Bryant about all things America - and the long story behind the intractable conflicts in t...
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...