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ChangeMakers
by Iconoclast Network
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 activists, climate campaigners like Bill Mckibben and Australian of the Year Grace Tame, as well as change makers, all of whom ha
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What is the Digest #ICYMI - ChangeMakers Digest
In May we launched a new kind of ChangeMaker content - the ChangeMaker Digest. Its a conversation between Samuel Chu and Amanda Tattersall, two experienced organisers keen to reflect on the world and their practice by turning to topic - big and small - and thinking through them together. The…
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Andrew Denton - ChangeMaker Chat - The Right to Go Gently #ICYMI
Voluntary assisted dying is back in the news this week, following the death of former ABC news anchor Richard Morecroft. For a decade, Andrew Denton has been at the forefront of the fight for the right to choose how we die when facing terminal illness. This week, he addressed the National Press...
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Digesting the electoral success of far-right populism - ChangeMaker Digest
In September, Alternative for Germany (the AfD) dominated two regional elections. Ahead of the next federal election, it is polling well ahead of its political rivals. When far-right populism takes hold in Germany, as it is in most Western Countries, it needs to be taken seriously. In this...
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Gary Gerstle - ChangeMaker Chat - Political orders past and emerging
Gary Gerstle is one of the most important historians of twentieth century America. He developed the concept of a "political order" to define longer stretches of political consensus that retain beliefs, approaches and methods for government behind the whims of elections. In this conversation,...
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Conscious Tribes Launch - ChangeMaker Chat
In August, ChangeMakers Podcast host Amanda Tattersall released a new book called Conscious Tribes: Thinking Differently about Making a Difference. It is available in Australia and New Zealand in physical and audio formats. On 12 August it was launched at Gleebooks with an interview by Craig...
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Jennifer Robinson - ChangeMaker Chat - Women, Power and Justice
Jennifer Robinson has spent her career working at the intersection of law, power and social change. An Australian barrister based in the UK, Jennifer is a leading media and human rights lawyer. She represented Amber Heard in Johnny Depp’s UK defamation case against The Sun, acted for Julian…
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What do Hong Kong dissidents teach us about courage - ChangeMakers Digest
Last week in Hong Kong, long time democracy advocates - including Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung - were found guilty of inciting subversion. Along with hundreds of others who were part of the 2019 protests against the Extradition Bill, they have been in jail for many years, imprisoned under the...
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Alina Gozin'a - ChangeMaker Chat - The Art of Seeing
In public life, we know that people see the world differently — through different opinions, attitudes, beliefs and experiences. But what happens when we become better at embracing those different perspectives? Can changing how we see also change how we make a difference? Alina Gozin'a is one of...
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Climate change, fires and how we respond - ChangeMakers Digest
Across the northern hemisphere in summer 2026 there are heatwaves and fires burning at an unprecedented intensity because of climate change. Yet the threats of authoriarianism and polarisation have taken climate change off the political agenda, with movements finding it hard to engage decision...
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Lessons from the Cockroaches - ChangeMakers Digest
Over the past 6 months the Cockroaches Junta Party has taken India by storm, challenging the rule of Modi's BJP in response to its failures in how it runs the Medical exams. What do those in the West not know about this movement, and what does it have to teach about change? How does it compare to...
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Dom Kelly - ChangeMaker Chat - Disability Justice
Dom Kelly has spent almost his entire life advocating for disability rights. He lives with cerebral palsy and he is the founder of New Disabled South based in the US. He tells us about his extraordinary life story that has moved from rock music to disability justice advocacy, while also offering…
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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 her new book Conscious Tribes, and together they compare the idea of writing as a conversation with the reader and writing as an act of persuasion...
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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 achieved so much, beginning with protests against Vietnam War and apartheid, to playing a leading role in environmental and anti-nuclear movements, to...
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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 life and democracy. Of course, there is plenty to chat about given all the political interference in these games - and we do talk about Trump and…
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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, whether through stories about life under the Stasi in East Germany, the rise of Hitler, or by giving voice to the agency of Eileen O'shaughnessy - the...
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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 change (and not change) when you change leaders? We aren't particularly focused on the specifics of the UK situation - but we wanted to reflect broadly on...
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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-Olympic career she has become a powerful advocate, lifting the lid on the kind of pressures and pain that are put onto young hopeful Olympians and...
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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 his brother as a child, it was an experience offering emergency medical care to a homeless man in London during his medical studies that left him...
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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 people to participate. In the UK the success of Reform in May’s local government elections reveal that people are increasingly seeing politics as elite...
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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 news or that has grabbed our attention and try to make sense of it - "digesting" it - to draw out lessons and meaning for how we make change. It is hosted…
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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-based left around figures like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes and Zohran Mamdani. Part of what has given rise to these candidates is a...
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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 while she was doing that, she wrote a book about women who have fought and won across Australian history. Its called Women Who Win, and it was…
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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 interests. So what does it look like when a growing group of African women begin to disrupt these assumption by building approaches to economics, food,...
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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 change making power of satire. Sami shares his story of finding comedy - and political satire in particular - as a way to cope with political...
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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 their lives and seek refuge in other countries because of the bombs. Mona Bani knows this journey as her family were refugees from Iran decades ago.…
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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 the arts. She has long taught people about how to communicate their messages in the media. But in January 2026, she found herself at the centre of...
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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 maker at the same time. He shares his 20 year journey from conventional law to a different kind of lawyering that he has now practiced for 17 years at...
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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 challenged directly, powerfully and with enormous bravery. For our first episode for 2026, we speak with Erik Peterson who is a 40 year resident…
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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 listeners in Sydney, Anat is visiting Australia in December and you can get tickets to see her speak hosted by Australian Progress on December 11 at the...
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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 Working FamiliesParty? This episode is one we recorded earlier with the national leader of the Working Families Party - Maurice Mitchell. This...
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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 the US. This episode was recorded in December 2024 - after President Trump's election but before he took office so it doesn't focus on what has...
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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 voices in the parliament. But there is a much bigger story than just the arrival of many new faces in parliament. Behind the new elected...
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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 through a series of powerful arts events. What happened was supported by the use of a socially-engaged arts practice that brought people together…
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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 ALP caucus in response to her campaigning (and crossing the floor of parliament) calling for the ALP to recognise the genocide in Gaza and the need…
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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 like window dressing rather than real community partnership. We talk to one of the world's leading co-design, community engaged researchers in nursing…
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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 on people who are living in the United States without formal documentation. In this conversation we talk with Alexandra Pineros Shields - a long…
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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 looks like to lead a community response to climate change. In this episode we talk with Rebecca McNaught, a community researcher on disaster response...
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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 of living with bipolar and some of the lessons it has generated about how we make a difference. In this podcast we replay that speech. Thanks to...
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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 Australia's leading advocates for the recognition of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. -------- Terri Janke is an Aboriginal and Torres...
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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 & Friends. There she will share some of her experiences of living with bipolar and what reflecting on those experiences have brought to her work as a...
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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 against women by building the leadership and capacity of women to lead the change. **** While we know that too many women live with the ever-present...
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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 Minister and former Opposition Leader Ed Miliband. The topic - big politics! This episode was recorded in 2021. When can political parties be real...
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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 working in government departments - aren't doing it for the money! These public servants - bureaucrats - are driven by a sense of service,...
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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, and the many lingering challenges we face when it comes to big issues that divide us - like refugee policy and climate change. This episode is a...
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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 what it takes to be a lawyer and a change maker at the same time. He shares his 20 year journey from conventional law to a different kind of lawyering that…
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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 still deeply relevant! What are some of the skills or insights shared by some of America’s extraordinary change makers, people like Alexandria...
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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 researcher who has helped change how we understand autism and neurodivergence. He shares his journey, including how he shook the house of academia so it…
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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 and the journey that got him there. Sami grew up in Pakistan, studied in the United States and became a fully fledged journalist - and comedian in…
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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 McIntyre has documented a campaign that did exactly that in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her book Power to Win documents that struggle and in this chat she…
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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 world better! Our first episode is a re-run of a chat with the brilliant and powerful Grace Tame. Grace took a powerful form of action at the…
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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 activists, climate campaigners like Bill Mckibben and Australian of the Year Grace Tame, as well as
change makers, all of whom ha
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