Safety is often discussed as though it is a checklist. Lock your doors. Don’t walk alone at night. Keep your keys between your fingers. Share your location. These fragments of advice circulate constantly, especially among women, yet they rarely add up to something coherent. They can even become exhausting—an endless set of personal precautions that […]
Across Australia, more and more people are questioning the promise that economic growth will solve our social and environmental crises. In fact, many are quietly sensing the opposite: that the push for continual expansion is driving resource depletion, social isolation, and the erosion of community life. Yet amid this uncertainty, new ideas and new visions
As 2026 begins, many people are entering the new year with a mixture of exhaustion and cautious hope. After years marked by economic pressure, political volatility, and overlapping global crises, optimism feels less like enthusiasm and more like necessity. Something, many sense, has to change. It is within this context that Changemaker Q&A host Tiyana
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Homelessness is often spoken about as though it is a moral failure, a personal choice, or an inevitable by-product of “bad decisions”. Yet the evidence from homelessness research, public health, and lived experience consistently points elsewhere: homelessness is produced by systems that compound vulnerability, and once someone is excluded from housing, reintegration becomes structurally difficult.
Most of us feel it: life is getting faster, more stressful, more expensive, and more disconnected. Our food travels absurd distances, our work lives feel stretched, and our communities feel thinner than they used to. In the middle of all of this, a growing movement is offering a surprisingly simple — and surprisingly hopeful —
Across movements for justice, sustainability, and equity, a common frustration emerges: the feeling that change is not happening fast enough, or worse, that progress is going backwards. This perception can be deeply demoralising for those working in social change spaces, particularly when effort, urgency, and moral conviction appear to yield limited visible results. Yet this
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As the planet continues to warm and weather patterns become ever more unpredictable, families everywhere face a daunting question: how do we bring up children in the midst of a climate emergency without surrendering to anxiety? In a ground‑breaking conversation between host Tiyana J and climate journalist‑parent Bridget Shirvell on the Changemaker Q & A podcast (produced by the
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n a time when public discourse often feels like a battleground rather than a bridge, the question for many change‑makers is not simply “How can I convince others?” but rather: “How can I engage with others so that we truly understand one another?” In the latest episode of Changemaker Q & A, I tackled this question head‑on:
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In today’s rapidly evolving social‑impact landscape, volunteer engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift. In a recent conversation on our podcast, volunteer‑engagement specialist Karen Knight shared insights drawn from her own career—one that began unexpectedly, with an 11‑year‑old reading bingo numbers at her grandmother’s care home—and has led to advising organisations on how to build robust volunteer programs. From
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In the latest episode of Changemaker Q&A, host Tiyana J invites listeners to dive deeply into a question many aspiring activists and professionals face: “How do I find clarity about my changemaking niche or purpose?” It’s a question rooted in the drive to make a difference—but one that rarely has a simple answer. In this article, we
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