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Think Again — 340 episodes
Automated decision-making affecting people's lives in the new NDIS Bill and across government departments
Sudan's civil war and the fallout for refugees as told by Aziza Hussein
People's declining faith in democracy, while the wealthy cry into their milk about tax changes
Kelvin Thomson talks about his life-long engagement with nature and current community projects
Radiothon retrospective: Revisiting some Think Again themes
Lurch to One Nation, collapse of the two-party system, and confusions of the current Australian political-economy
Threading together some of the key factors behind Israel's genocidal war
Report on serious anti-Palestinian racism in our institutions and communities
Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism! Strategies of the Zionist lobby to suppress pro-Palestine solidarity
Australia's new hate speech laws and serious threats to protest, dissent and free speech
A worker's movement within the Catholic church: Three personal stories from across the world
Superintelligent AI: Why we need to shut it down NOW before it's too late
Developing good teaching practice from the ground up (without ill-informed command-and-control from our polis)
Democracy in Australia and what does Labor stand for?
How policy is getting in the way of schools and teachers doing good education
Israel, US and Iran (still) and imagining a better system for everyone in 2050
Chaos and devastation unleashed by Israel and the US in their latest illegal war
Going undercover at the reactionary Right’s Advance conference: What can we learn from it?
Stop children being arrested, charged, hauled before courts and imprisoned as adults! Join the campaign
'Love letters to nature' and other ACF campaigns fighting for our natural world
Imagining better and more democratic ways of organising ourselves: It's necessary for change
Are we really in a democracy right now...? We have some doubts...
Footscray Community Response: A community evaluation of the Footscray CBD Security Patrol Program
Learning from Aboriginal and West Papuan communities: Robert Hoskin reflects
We're in the middle of three cataclysms: ecology, community violence and world politics
Loss of bodily and situational awareness while immersed in our mobiles: What are the implications?
In the shadow of Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan: Palestinians are driven from the West Bank
Runaway racial profiling by Victoria Police revealed in the data
Revelations about Australia's foreign policy: What is really happening and why, as told by Prof. Clinton Fernandes
Why we need to stop the Victorian Government from introducing adult jail sentences for children
Ending violence against women and children: Interview with Phillip Ripper from No To Violence
AI cannot and should not usurp and replace human creativity and interaction
Voices under fire: Stories from Gaza
Making sense of the latest Israel-Palestine (occupier-occupied) 'peace' deal
Building Jewish solidarity with Palestinians: A journey including 4 years in Gaza and fierce push-back from pro-Zionists back home
Centurion University leading the way: Working with, training and empowering local tribal communities
Can the Labor government keep the people’s trust on its current trajectory?
Australia's tepid climate policy, and a call for urgent collective action: Interview with Annika Reynolds from ACF
Converging fractures in our society, with lessons from Europe's Nazi past and current US
The failed neoliberal takeover of our human services - When will our leaders see it's not working?!
Australian universities in crisis? But they inject a lot of money into 'our' economy!
Productivity Roundtable: skimming the surface, ignoring unpaid productivity like caring, and reinforcing systemic inequality
Creating dementia-friendly communities
The Wild West of AI and the need to regulate it on behalf of 'us', the people
Communities creating change and hope in Timor Leste - Building local ecology, economies, and health and wellbeing
What is the place of 'community development' in creating social change?
What's happening in Iran? - an insider's view
External politics, internal politics - on matters like Israel we've effectively been a one-party system
Hopeful community-led initiatives to tackle climate change: Hepburn Energy
Behind the current 'Iran situation': the US and Britain squashing Iranian democracy in 1953 and its consequences today
Looking through the layers of the latest war in Iran - Australia is involved in
Think Again retrospective and moving into today... and possible tomorrows...
Radiothon retrospective: Looking back over six years of broadcasting Think Again
Moral ambition and creating change: Thoughts and inspiration for activists and would-be activists
Implications of the federal election result for our planet (including the latest 'climate bomb' decision)
Time to ride the wave of change for a better world; Hopefully the new government notices...
Implications of the federal election result for refugees and asylum seekers
Could this be the time for honesty and bravery in Australia-Palestine politics...? Nah...
Leading up to the federal election, are we voting about what matters?
The new Universities Australia definition of antisemitism and its weaponisation against dissent, protest and scholarly debate
The dire situation of the Alevi people and other minorities in Turkiye and surrounding countries
Tracking how well people are doing beyond narrow economic indicators like GDP
Dissecting the recent federal budget - will it make a difference?
The further escalation of US Authoritarianism, the selective silence of our leaders, and the need to be alert and active
Authoritarianism is 'in' again... and it's time to resist
The US-led roller coaster and what it means for everyone stuck on it (including us)
Making sense of the latest German election results
Supporting teachers' reflection and self-directed learning and improvement
Unravelling societies... is that what we see happening in the US and in Australia?
How corporations are killing free speech; a conversation with Josh Bornstein
What's happening in Oz, US and international politics in 2025-continued
What to look out for in Oz, US and international politics in 2025 (Warning: some scary things)
Israel wreaks havoc in the Middle East with US backing, while our media and politicians are lost in action
Talking with Professor Kate Rigby about her academic journey in Ecological Humanities
How companies and governments outsource their administration to us, we doing all their work for 'free'
Trump, the decline of capitalism, and the role more active schooling and education could play
The empire is sick and shaky... and is Trump(ism) the cause or just the symptom?
Strategies of tax evasion by the mega rich, and how we can return billions of lost revenue to the public purse
Ben Rivers' play 'The invaders' fear of memories', based on family diaries from early-1900s Palestine
The Alevi culture and substantial presence in Australia: Who knew?
Community ways of doing politics in Oz: Will the Independents' 'tide' save our democracy?...
Israel's denial of its slaughter of Palestinian people and the ways it tries to mask the truth
Attack-dog Dutton, acquiescing Albanese, and how the anti-democratic two-party system is failing us
Decline of democracy in Australia, a potted history of bold Labor reforms, and current Labor-lite
The 'bizarre' state of western democracy - and are we even in one?
Empire US: Its long history and where Australia fits in today
Deep pitfalls of command-and-control professionalism in health, mental health and emergency management
Timor Leste: Women weavers cooperatives and celebrating 25 years of independence
Creating a society for equality and sustainability, while saving the planet in the process
Australia drops the ball on international justice - and in the process we lose our moral standing
The continuing onslaughts on Gaza by the State of Israel backed by US military aid
Proposed draconian 'reforms' to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
'Multicultural' Australia - is it really a 'success story'? and where are we taking it?
Thinking community with Daryl Taylor
International and domestic issues merge in the pre-election period: Gaza and Australian politics
Doing peace and community development: chatting with Simon Reeves about 'glocal' activism
Organising 'Occupy Wall Street' - a conversation with its long-term organiser Marisa Holmes
Radiothon special with highlights and testimonies from past guests
Let's have deeper conversations about where we are headed as a society
What's happening at our universities?: Top-down command and control, KPIs and worker alienation
Chagos Archipelago: A tale of colonial trickery, a long fight for justice, and Australia's continued siding with international oppressors
Peace activism, non-violent resistance, a culture of peace - a chat with Marty Branagan
Conversation with Jorge Jorquera and some interweaving currents of life, politics and social change
Repairing teaching content and processes, and the management of Australian tertiary education
We've all become servants of the 'cloud', a handful of technofeudalists raking in the profits: the internet dark side
Valuing, saving and investing in Victoria's public housing
How Internet and social media are stealing our focus and our minds
WRONG WAY GO BACK: Stop going down the US war path and work for peace instead
Co-creating a hopeful, interdependent and sustainable future: Tim Hollo's "Living Democracy"
Afghan women settling in Australia and their desperate situation in Afghanistan
Listening to other Jewish voices... Israel, Gaza and Palestine, their history and the wider context
From the mouths of Zionist leaders: the more-than-century-old plan to eliminate Palestinians from their lands
What's happening in Ukraine? (the hornet's nest stirred up by the US and allies and now seemingly forgotten)
Israel called to prevent/stop genocide in Gaza, while the UN is undermined as a body for international peace
The devastating legacy of colonialism (aka 'State of Israel') for the Palestinian people
The 'infernal triangle' of two main parties and the mainstream media, neither doing their job properly
Emblematic stories for our time
The Atlas Network: How corporate powers collude to shape public opinion and government policies
From its Palestine Laboratory, Israel sells its technology of occupation worldwide
The need to De-Grow: How can we make it happen?
A Relational Economy? What would that look and feel like?
What is Artificial Intelligence and should we be worried? We think so...
Purging neo-liberal mythologies from the bottom up (and reintroducing participatory evaluation!)
Reflections on the Voice referendum result
Making sense of the escalating crisis in Gaza and what we can do
Making education more meaningful to address the problems facing us
The Voice, and the big money forces behind the right-wing No campaign
The proposed housing reforms in Victoria...? avoiding the real reasons for the crisis...
First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria: What can we learn for a national Voice to Parliament?
The Voice, the Constitution, and our Westminster system
Australian universities in crisis and how they could be re-directed
Punishment for profit: How corporations punish unemployed people while milking the public purse
Centuries of stealth on Africa: From slaves to pilfering resources to dumping 'trashion'
How the new 21st Century virtues are failing our democracy
Centuries of predation on African nations, untold in dominant western narratives
What's happening with climate change and what can we do?
Weaning our economy - and people! - off poker machine addiction
Let's not get sucked into the US war machine and fight for peace instead!
Robodebt: a sociopathic assault by our past leadership on Centrelink recipients
Bhutan to Blacktown: Om Dhungel talks about his refugee journey, eventually finding and making community in Australia
Doing community (development) work: Report from the World Community Development Conference
Unpacking the housing crisis in Australia
Radiothon Special 2023, with testimonials from past guests
Saving and growing our forests is more urgent than ever
From traditional slavery to modern slavery: How are we doing?
Colonial legacies of racism and slavery in the US and Australia
Slavery in the Americas and the foundation of colonial narratives and practices
Making sense of Labor's federal budget with Matthew Lloyd-Cape from Per Capita
Cafes fill up water bottles free, and reduce plastic pollution: A Yarra Valley Water initiative
Addressing racism and exclusions in the community sector - in workplaces and working with diverse communities
Exposing the lies of neoliberal capitalism and unmasking the true perpetrators of poverty
Community issues and community services: Insights from the front line
More on US strategies for world domination, and some cracks where the light might get in
More about the drumming up of war with China and the shameful role of the media
Who is benefitting from the drumming up of war with China?
One man's 50 year+ journey through migration, activism, and community broadcasting
Class war is alive and well!: Three types of systemic collusion that advantage the wealthy and powerful
Property, ownership and the travesty of mining on Aboriginal lands
YOU TALK, WE DIE: Community members organise for a safe injection facility
The Myth of Normal: How capitalism profits from the problems and illnesses it creates
Key values for a better future - relationality, diversity, and inclusion
Countering the worldwide trend toward government austerity
Wellbeing, equality, education, corruption, and more - What can we learn from Finland?
Is this the end for shape-changing capitalism?
Ukraine and the promotion of US-style ‘democracy’ (i.e. US dominance)
Community Development and Primary Health Care - a neccesary connection
We need to talk about class!
Health is a community and public matter – but we seem to deliberately ignore this
How people can reduce food waste - even within our complex world!
Freedom: What does it mean, where does it come from, and do we have it?
Wellbeing budgeting: How does the new federal budget 'measure up'?
More about the United Nations, and building international peace and cooperation
The United Nations: Why we need it more than ever
Conviction Politics project: Telling stories of resistance and activism by convicts in Australia
The queen's death and its meanings for different Aboriginal people
Looking through the propaganda fog at western military expansion
Outsourcing the work of government, while private companies get fat on our money
Volunteers on the COVID-19 frontline, assisting people and communities in crisis
Participation in democratic decision-making: Drawing inspiration from the more radical 60s
Our double-system of constitution and convention - and does it ensure democracy anyway?
Our double-system of constitution and convention - and does it ensure democracy anyway?
Why Australia should become a republic
Re-thinking peace, security, and a sovereignty based on friendship and unity
War-nation US, the lies it tells, and why we shouldn't go down its war path
How Yarra Valley Water entrusted the big decisions to a Citizen's Jury
Former PM declares lack of faith in government, saying he should know!
The NDIS: Foundational assumptions and how the ship was set on the wrong course
What's wrong with the new wages and conditions deal for teachers?
The NDIS: Context, benefits and unexpected consequences
Constitutions: Where do they come from and what are they (good) for?
Australia's constitutional monarchy and becoming a republic - what are we waiting for?
Radiothon 2022, with messages from our guests
Australia's corporate robber barons - but is capitalism compatible with democracy anyway?
Telling the truth and addressing the wrongs against Aboriginal people in Australia: What's the best approach?
Australia votes: Mulling over a big win for the people
Local food, cooperative farming, and regenerative agriculture in Central Victoria
The shocking (mostly untold) story of the war in Ukraine
Australia’s faux two-party system, and why we need to crack it open
Nuclear weapons and strategy from WW2 to the present: Could we plan for peace instead?
Should the Environment Minister protect young people from climate harm?: Implications of a key legal judgement
Ukraine, China, and better ways Australia can manage international relations
Unpicking the federal budget: Is it helping create a fair and healthy society?
Brazen corruption destroying democracy in Australia
The homelessness explosion in Australia, and doing something about it
Displacement: The common denominator in floods, droughts, fires and war
Trying to live on below-poverty Centrelink payments: A personal account
Blaming China for US economic woes - but who is really breaking international trade rules?
Could the Russian invasion into Ukraine relate to the aggressive expansion of NATO?
Creating more affordable housing: A Grattan Institute proposal...
The myths and lies behind Australia Day... and behind the ongoing subjugation of Aboriginal people
Maintaining US global domination - and how we are made to believe it's in our interest
Why our governments must implement the UN anti-torture protocol (OPCAT)
Paulo Freire again: What’s so special about 'critical education,' especially today?
Repeat from 29 October 2021: Paulo Freire and critical education
Everything is interconnected: We need to understand this to save the planet and ourselves
The proposed Religious Discrimination Bill: Hurting the vulnerable for political advantage?
The Religious Discrimination Bill: How religious schools receiving lots of public money are allowed to discriminate
Do we want a military invasion in Australian classrooms and universities?
Local community fights monstrous developments in the middle of treasured parklands
Activists oppose AUKUS and their war mongering, calling for solidarity and resistance
Paulo Freire's 100th anniversary: Critical education remembered… not just for 'old' 60s activists!
Learning more about B-Corporations – humanising and 'ecologising' our (capitalist) economy...
We wrote the PM’s speech: Big COVID thanks to Victorians! But sorry about defense and climate…
Lessons from COVID: Invest properly in community-based healthcare. Help disadvantaged groups get vaccinated.
Australia’s defense debacle: Buying nuclear subs, war noises, and lock-stepping with the Anglo powers
Afghan women making change - here and in Afghanistan
COVID and the injustices of global vaccine distribution
Afghanistan, human rights and the strength of women
Getting out of Afghanistan: Making sense of the mess through history’s lens
Human rights and the abuse of people in our prison system
Home ownership for all has gone AWOL in OZ… or has it?
The great COVID vaccine robbery: Billionaires profiteer while poor countries are left behind
OK... humans have Rights ... but what about non-humans? Are they just there for 'us'?
The Australian Government's expanding powers to spy on us through digital technology
Human Rights: What are they and (why) are they still relevant?
The UN anti-torture protocol (OPCAT): Why are the Australian and Victorian governments dragging their feet?
Scomo’s governance-by-marketing: Shifting responsibility, lying, and deflecting attention from the real problems
Our ever-expanding 'underclass'... while the feds distract us with war-mongering
An economy on steroids or on Prozac? It depends which way you look…
Radiothon special with testimonials and a wander down memory lane
'Rewilding the Urban Soul': A conversation with author Claire Dunn
Federal Court decides Minister has ‘duty of care’ to prevent harm from climate change
Federal budgets or bags of tricks...? Looking at the 2021 version from outside-the-'normal'-box
Exploring the role of police - historically and at present
Experiments with Possible Futures: A conversation with Jose Ramos
More thoughts on our predicaments: Pandemic, capitalism, racism, ecology and especially war
Community Voice: How locals in Hepburn Shire (VIC) elected people who really represent them
Predicaments our world faces: Can we find our way out of them together?
Waiting for flood or bushfire recovery funds...? Better live in the 'right' electorate!
Elite schools: Preparing (male) ‘children of the gods' to abuse women and exploit the masses
Exploring sexual assault, consent and the puzzling Craig McLachlan decision
Handouts for the wealthy while the unemployed continue to be squeezed
Royal Commissions galore... but are they really 'helping' and involving the aged and the mentally unwell?
Good to have the COVID-19 vaccine(s) going into our arms … but it isn’t the whole story!
Big pharma companies restrict access to COVID vaccines while the public pays for their development
We need to invest in care and the common good, not in private profiteering
Cooperative housing, shared living, and alternative ways of working
Grateful for new social housing funding in Victoria, but we need the proper mix and quality!
Why did an angry mob invade the US Capitol?: Republicans, racism and inequality
The Kala Space: A social enterprise that employs homeless people and gives them dignity
The system is rigged: We need to re-think and re-organise it
Reflections on 2020: A year to forget? A year to learn from?
Embracing relationality: Transformation for a healthier world
Violence against women: Exploring causes and avenues for change
'Our' SAS soldiers' criminal conduct: An exception or to be expected?
Can the US election tell us anything about politics in Australia? The parallels are obvious!
PM’s hypocritical attacks on a CEO's gift of watches while he's 'pork-barrelling' with public - our! - money
International students stranded and forgotten in Australia - after we've taken their money
Privatising public housing, the home-ownership dream, and exploring other possibilities
Calling out the need for more state-built public housing
Federal Budget: why bother? the usual handouts for the wealthy and peanuts for all else
How COVID showed us the folly of privatisation and management-school 'inspired' governance
The Coal-ition’s gas transition invading Westernport Bay? We helped prevent it!
No welfare for the wealthy! Stop their undeserved tax breaks!
Social change through local government: What are the possibilities?
Who carries the burden of ill health in our system and during COVID-19?
Changing our economy one village at a time: bHive Cooperative in Bendigo
COVID, climate change and the (next) economy
Media bias and the hysterical and transparent campaign against Premier Andrews
Social change and activism: The need for holistic thinking
Housing and homelessness: One man's story
Social change: Going beyond 'goodies and baddies' thinking
Relational insights about the pandemic: A way into a better 'new normal'?
Raising Centrelink payments for good... what are 'we' waiting for?
How local governments answer to their masters and not their communities
Turning universities into sausage factories - keep them poor, so students pay more and learn less....
The Coalition government has been porkbarrelling community development funds; and the media are silently complicit...
Refugees in Australia: The past, the present and what next?
Aboriginal lives matter: Political discourses and abuses
China and biased public discourse: Preparing for a new Cold War?
The future of work from a union perspective
The Australian Living Peace Museum
Community development in the 70s: Inspiration for the present?
Making our working lives - and our planet - healthier
The nature of work - historically, now and into the future
The coronavirus: Who wears the financial risk?
The coronavirus and the desperate situation of asylum seekers
The coronavirus and the western-centric bias in reporting
The coronavirus: Exploring possibilities for change
The coronavirus, the community welfare sector and volunteering
The coronavirus and the fault lines in our health and other systems
Community development for today - Part 3
Community development for today - Part 2
Community development for today - Part 1
Local government, participation and democracy
True participatory democracy... What would it take...?
Public Private Partnerships: Who gains...? Who loses...? ... bet you guessed it!
The alarming Religious Discrimination Bill being proposed
Does the PM's Pentecostalism 'inform' his beliefs about climate change and help explain his inaction?
Bushfires, climate change denial and fake news
Upfield Corridor campaign: A lost opportunity for proper consultation with the community
The commons: Resurrecting a good idea leading to better ways of living!
Food security and food sovereignty: A call to reframe local action
Climate change inaction: Scomo's fake excuse that we 'only' produce 1.3% of global emissions
Social enterprises as part of the New Economy
Disability and social change through self-advocacy and community action
Is patriarchy a thing of the past? An interview with Bob Pease about men, gender and power
Poker machines and their creation of harm, while governments pretend interest in harm prevention
The social production of mental illness
The narcissism epidemic: 'Selfies’ are only the beginning! - or are they the end...?
Sociopathic behaviour: Its effects on NGOs and the community sector
Sociopathic behaviour: How it is promoted and rewarded in our capitalist cultures and systems
Manfred Max-Neef, the 'barefoot economist'
Governing in silos
Talking about values... Are they still useful for living?
Exploring ‘De-growth’ - necessary for the survival of humans and other species
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS): A personal account
Economic growth: When impotent daydreams meet noxious nightmares...
Resilience: A personal or relational quality? - or society's new way of shifting responsibility to the victims of its policies?
Royal commissions and democracy: A rather strange combination...
Cooperatives: Good for living and good for organisations
Populism, social media and creating social change
Populism: Learning from history to understand the present
'Regulating' banks and 'regulating' unions: Spot the difference!
Tax and welfare - two ways that maintain our inequalities and the system that justifies them
Surveillance capitalism: Is there an escape?
Managerialism - an infectious and toxic ideology
An economy for humans and for the planet
Weasel words... saying nothing but doing a great deal of damage
Relationality - our modus vivendi...