Amanda Tattersall
amandatattersall.bsky.social
Amanda Tattersall
@amandatattersall.bsky.social
Community researcher and community organiser passionate about building a better world
The lastest episode of @changemakerspod.bsky.social Podcast is a re-release of our chat with the magnificent Radio National’s Saturday Extra Host Nick Bryant about all things America.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
At @changemakerspod.bsky.social we have re-released our a chat with Radio National’s Saturday Extra Host Nick Bryant about all things America – and the long story behind the intractable conflicts in the US.

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October 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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This week's episode is all about the community independents movement! Denis Ginnivan was at the first meeting that turned into Voices for Indi. We look at what can happen when community organising strategies are connected with electoral politics.

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October 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Can an arts practice help change the world?

We talk with Vic McEwan - who has worked with communities to create exhibitions, ceremonies, painting and art to bring very different, and sometimes hostile, communities into a new conversation.

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September 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Our host
@amandatattersall.bsky.social
talked with
@fatima-payman.bsky.social
- tune in to hear the long story behind her advocacy for Gaza and how she left the Australian Labor Party. This is an unmissable chat with a true Australian change maker!

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September 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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What IS co-design? Its one of those words that is tossed about not often easy to understand. Come and listen to @profbrendan.bsky.social, a world leading community engaged nursing researcher explain it!!

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August 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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What happens when 000 fails?

In 2022 communities on the Northern Rivers showed us all how to respond to climate disaster.

This episode with Rebecca McNaught - a climate disaster researcher and Northern Rivers local shares some of what was learnt.

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July 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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🔔 Job opportunity – Sydney Environment Institute is #hiring a #Postdoctoral Research Fellow - #Justice and #Electricity Transmission to develop research on climate justice and electricity transmission with @amandatattersall.bsky.social and @dschlosberg.bsky.social. Applications close 11 Aug, 11:59PM
Postdoctoral Fellow - Justice and Electricity Transmission
Part time, 4 days per week, fixed term until June 2028 Research Project, 'Just transmission: advancing coherence in Australia’s electricity policy' Base Salary $127,436 - $151,328 (Level B) pro rata +...
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July 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
We need to talk -still - about how to end violence against women. This ChangeMakers Podcast episode shares the work of the UK group Love and Power who are working to achieve this goal in a very different way.

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June 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Can lawyers be change makers?

In this episode talk to Michael Bradley @marquelawyers.bsky.social about lawyering for social change. He shares how he practices law with a focus on relationships rather than timesheets, while sharing some cracker war stories!
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April 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Can you make a difference by being funny?

In this podcast episode news satirist and stand up comedian Sami Shah takes us through the art of political satire and the journey that got him there.

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March 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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In a world where everyone is worried about cost of living – what difference would it make to lift wages?

In this podcast chat @amandatattersall.bsky.social talks with Lyndy McIntrye who has documented the 12 year Living Wage campaign in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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"We don't have peerages in this country. The Captain's (Chairman's) Lounge is as close as you'll get to a knighthood," Charles Firth et al, 'Optics' S1 E3.
February 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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We are back for 2025!! To start the year in style - we are celebrating Grace Tame.

She bravely took on the worst Australian at the Australian of the Year awards - and this episode gives you a rich background about the kind of amazing person she is.

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February 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Looking for something to watch this weekend? Check out Optics, now streaming on ABC iview! iview.abc.net.au/show/optics
January 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Im biased, but i really enjoyed the first episode of Optics, @charlesfirth.bsky.social new show on the ABC, about a crisis management PR firm and a series of terrible people in need of image makeovers. Laughed a lot. 🤙
January 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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My brilliant and very funny husband @charlesfirth.bsky.social has a TV comedy show called Optics launching on ABC Wednesday night at 8:30pm. It’s all about crisis management PR and inter-generational corporate war! And if you like it you can binge the whole series on iview.
January 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Today is the day! Optics, a satirical comedy about the grubby world of crisis PR, premieres tonight on ABC-TV and iView at 8:30pm. Tune in!
January 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My brilliant and very funny husband @charlesfirth.bsky.social has a TV comedy show called Optics launching on ABC Wednesday night at 8:30pm. It’s all about crisis management PR and inter-generational corporate war! And if you like it you can binge the whole series on iview.
January 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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When the intern runs the Emergency Alert accounts…
January 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In LA, the view from our hotel window last night.
January 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Podcast tip. @changemakerspod.bsky.social with longtime anti nucleair campaigner Dave Sweeney open.spotify.com/episode/6Ms4...
Dave Sweeney - ChangeMaker Chat - No Nuclear Campaigner #ICYMI
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November 20, 2024 at 7:31 AM