ChangeMakers

Let's talk about race.In this chat Gloria Tabi shares her experiences of racism at work in Australia and how she has come to lead change in the workplace around racial exclusion and discrimination. This is a powerful conversation about the brutality of exclusion and about the challenging strategies required to understand and change racism in the workplace.Gloria's organisation - Everyday Inclusion - works on these issues - https://www.everydayinclusion.com.au/about. Her books and materials about race and exclusion can be found there.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook & Instagram - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's talk about race.In this chat Gloria Tabi shares her experiences of racism at work in Australia and how she has come to lead change in the workplace around racial exclusion and discrimination. This is a powerful conversation about the brutality of exclusion and about the challenging strategies required to understand and change racism in the workplace.Gloria's organisation - EVERYDAY INCLUSION - works on these issues - https://www.everydayinclusion.com.au/about. Her books and materials about race and exclusion can be found there.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do anthropologists use curiosity to see and support people to make change in the world? And what is an anthropologist anyway?In this conversation we talk with Nikita Simpson about how she came to work as an anthropologist, having worked up a curiosity about the similarities and differences between communities and cultures from growing up in a bi-racial family in Australia. She takes us to the Himalayas where she has worked with communities to understand the complex dynamics of care in communities subject to radical change, and to the pandemic in the UK, where anthropologists played a critical role in helping government create new supports for communities in crisis.If you have ever thought of yourself as curious - then this is an episode for you.Nikita mentions a range of groups and work in the podcast, which are linked here:SHM Foundation - https://www.shmfoundation.org/Publications - https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/nikita-simpsonNikita's work on ghar ki tension - https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.13956And on Kamzori - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maq.12707Dhaarchidi Collective - https://dhaarchidi.wordpress.com/Nikita's work with Laura Bear on Covid and Care - https://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/COVID-and-Care-Research-GroupThe Call Centre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MARYRua5E4AFor more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website – https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter – @changemakers99 or @amandatatts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode from 2021, we look at the power of public servants and how they make change with one of Australia's most senior former public servants - Peter Shergold.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 – Peter Shergold – who was a senior official in both the Hawke Labor Government and the Howard conservative Liberal Government. He shares stories about what it is like to work in the public service, and the challenges and limitations that it brings. He gives us an insight into what public servants are doing right now as they prepare to support a new Federal Government in Australia, on the issue of climate change.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website – https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter – @changemakers99 or @amandatatts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 for Australia project explores how communities like Gladstone and Geelong are leading the way in designing policies that create an economic transition in ways that are shaped by their interests. Elise lives in Gladstone and grew up in regional South Australia, she tells the story of how these communities have used community organising and worked with the Sydney Policy Lab at the University of Sydney to create a community-led transition from the ground up.For more on the Real Deal see here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-policy-lab/our-research/real-deal.html. Host Amanda Tattersall is involved in this project and has written about it, including a discussion of the work in Gladstone and in Geelong.For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Dietrich the co-host of the Differently Brained podcast. She is autistic and has lived with the challenges of mental health. She co-created a podcast to make a space for people to share how they live differently. Jacinta shares openly about her neurodivergence and the community she has created. We also have a lovely chat about changemaking - and the power that  “small” change, like one to one conversations can bring to changing the world. You can find out more about the Differently Brained podcast here: https://differentlybrainedpodcast.podbean.com/, where there are links to episodes. The podcast can be found on all the podcast apps. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 aware that these kinds of digital advocacy movements operate in 20 countries around the world. These groups are linked through a global network called OPEN (Online Progressive Engagement Network) and today we talk with Nina Hall who has written the book about how the network works! We explore what makes these organisations similar and how their work differs across the world. We talk about a big debate inside the network - about having their campaigns between being led by member preferences and being stewarded by staff. This is a chat we at ChangeMakers particularly enjoyed as our host, Amanda Tattersall helped found GetUp in Australia. If you have been getting emails from one of these organisations - come and have a listen to how they work! For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 with Martha McKenzie the Executive Director of the Civic Power Fund in the United Kingdom. The Civic Power Fund is dedicated to raising resources for community organising - providing seed grants and creating understanding amongst philanthropists of the particular power that organising can create.This Chat digs into how they have done this and some of the obstacles they have encountered. It is a tour de force about all things organising, and it demonstrates the power of using the principles of organising to ‘disorganise and reorganise’ philanthropy. In the Chat Martha mentions a few ideas which you can find out more about here: Jane McAlevey - there is a ChangeMaker Chat with Jane that you can find here. Scale - the article that our host Amanda Tattersall wrote is here For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 for” movement started. In celebration of Voices for Indi, we are sharing this Chat with Nick Haines - in case you missed it (ICYMI). Nick worked on Cathy McGowan’s campaign and his mum Helen Haines is the current member for Indi. In this conversation he shares the long story of how community independents used community organising techniques like kitchen table conversations to build an independent electoral base in Australia.  The Voices for Indi group has just released a new book called The Indi Way - and you can find out more about it here - https://voicesforindi.com/. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 at the centre of that movement - and is now the current Member for Griffith. In this conversation he shares how the Queensland Greens translated community organising techniques into an electoral force. He shares his unusal story into the Greens, as someone who was frustrated and disenchanted by traditional electoral politics. But gentrification and the Brisbane floods changed his perspective, and he was encouraged to try and use lessons from political parties like Podemos and social movements around the world in the electoral arena. Max goes into detail about how the Greens successfully organised, using door knocking, training programs and issue education sessions to create a space for political education and movement building. He talks openly about the challenges of electoral politics, and how important it is for candidates and parties to be held accountable to the people that elected them. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.