Why Protests Aren't Enough

Amanda Tattersall has built a career helping ordinary Australians team up and win, as co-founder of GetUp, founder of the Sydney Alliance, host of the ChangeMakers podcast, and author of the new book Conscious Tribes. She has never worked in domestic and family violence. That's exactly why she closes this season. After five episodes with researchers, advocates and community builders, one message kept surfacing: prevention lives or dies with ordinary people. So for the finale, Kirrily sits down with the person who knows how ordinary people get organised, and turns everything this season has called for into something you can actually do. She starts by taking apart the biggest myth in social change: that it takes someone extraordinary. Movements, she argues, don't start with strangers. They start with the people already around you, at work, at school, on your street. And she lands on the idea the whole season has been walking toward: connection comes first, and when more of us take part, everything else follows. It's the final episode of the season, and it ends where we began: with an answer to the question episode one opened with. If we know so much about domestic and family violence, why haven't we ended it? If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732. Amanda Tattersall offers an extensive range of resources at amandatattersall.com and conscioustribes.net. For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to ⁠runagainstviolence.com⁠.If this episode got you thinking, don't keep it to yourself, send it to one person in your community who needs to hear it. And if you've got 30 seconds, leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every share and every review helps this show reach another community. This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. CREDITS Host and producer: Kirrily Dear Executive producer and supervising editor: Pariya Taherzadeh Audio editor: Graham Hunter The Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.