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A podcast series about change and the people who make it happen
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 and the obstacles they overcame along the way. Change Agents is a collaboration between The Conversation and the Swinburne Leadership Institute and Swinburne University’s Department of Media and Communication.

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Change Agents: Alex Wodak and Lucy Haslam on the push to legalise medicinal cannabis

Change Agents: The push to legalise medicinal cannabis. CC BY-NC-SA46.9 MB (download)

In 2016 three Australian states and the Commonwealth passed laws to legalise the growing of medicinal cannabis. It was an extraordinary result for a campaign that struggled for decades to gain traction. Suddenly the push had taken off in the public imagination, prompting state and then federal politicians to agree to the cultivation and prescription of cannabis for people suffering from a wide range…

1 Host: Andrew Dodd

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Change Agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia's most radical reform of local government

Change Agents: Episode 3. The Conversation, CC BY-ND46.3 MB (download)

Victoria's council reforms in 1994 remain Australia's most radical restructuring of local government. The changes under the Kennett government reduced the number of councils from 210 to 79 through amalgamations. In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd brings together Stuart Morris QC and Leonie Hemingway (formerly Leonie Burke), the two people who respectively led the Labor and Liberal governments…

1 Host: Andrew Dodd

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Change Agents: Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee on establishing a national women's football league

Change Agents: Establishing a national women’s football league. The Conversation, CC BY-NC-SA45.9 MB (download)

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 follow soon after. The national competition is the culmination of decades of work by women's football associations around Australia. These have steadily grown and overcome ignorance and discrimination to gain greater acceptance. On this episode of Change…

1 Host: Andrew Dodd

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Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS

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, political, cultural and political change, celebrating their success and explaining how they did it. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is the biggest social reform in Australia this century. By 2022 it will help half a million people access…

1 Host: Andrew Dodd

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Andrew Dodd

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