Change Agents
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Change Agents
Change Agents is about the art of change and the people who make it happen. It focuses on real and recent case studies where often ordinary people have brought about profound social, political, cultural and political change. It celebrates their success and challenges them to explain how they did it...
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Change Agents: Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia briefly stopped Japanese whaling
The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has called a halt to its famous missions tracking the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.
For the...
Change Agents: Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi on reforming ‘one-punch’ laws
The death of Melbourne heart surgeon Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann has again focused attention on the fatal consequences of so-called “one-punch” attacks...
Change Agents: David Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly on ending the gay panic defence
The gay panic – or homosexual advance – defence has allowed people literally to get away with murder. It’s given them a way to convince juries they we...
Change Agents: Alex Wodak and Lucy Haslam on the push to legalise medicinal cannabis
In 2016 three Australian states and the Commonwealth passed laws to legalise the growing of medicinal cannabis. It was an extraordinary result for a c...
Change Agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia’s most radical reform of local government
Victoria’s council reforms in 1994 remain Australia’s most radical restructuring of local government.
The changes under the Kennett government...
Change Agents: Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee on establishing a national women’s football league
When it kicks off in 2017 the national women’s football league will include eight AFL teams from five states, with at least another five likely to fol...
Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
This is the first program in a new podcast series, Change Agents. It will focus on examples of ordinary people who have brought about profound social,...