Best Thomas Ganley Podcasts (2024)

Thomas and Veranda talk with writer, activist, pastor, and public theologian Brandan Robertson on this episode of the Tit for Tat ShowBy Tit for Tat Show

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Jamie Kelton Is Our Queer Family!

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Episode was pre-recorded on September 26, 2023By The Tit for Tat Show

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Elise Ganley - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Transition 37:47

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What would it take for communities reliant on fossil fuels to be leaders in the climate transition? In this chat Elise Ganley, the National Lead Organiser for the Real Deal for Australia project explores how communities like Gladstone and Geelong are leading the way in designing policies that create an economic transition in ways that are shaped by…

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Jacinta Dietrich - ChangeMaker Chat - Differently brained 46:34

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We are all different - but some of these differences are hard to see. That includes differences based on our neurodiversity or our mental health. This conversation is with Jacinta Dietrich the co-host of the Differently Brained podcast. She is autistic and has lived with the challenges of mental health. She co-created a podcast to make a space for …

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Veranda shares her experiences with the political climate surrounding drag in 2023 in the latest episode of the Tit for Tat ShowBy The Tit for Tat Show

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Nina Hall - ChangeMaker Chat - Digital Advocacy 47:39

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If you are in Australia you might have heard of GetUp, or if you are in the United States you probably know about MoveOn - but you might not be aware that these kinds of digital advocacy movements operate in 20 countries around the world. These groups are linked through a global network called OPEN (Online Progressive Engagement Network) and today …

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Martha MacKenzie - ChangeMaker Chat - Organising Money for ChangeMaking 42:51

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Making change is be invaluable, but without resources it is hard to do. This episode digs into the question of how to raise money to make changemaking happen. We talk with Martha McKenzie the Executive Director of the Civic Power Fund in the United Kingdom. The Civic Power Fund is dedicated to raising resources for community organising - providing …

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Nick Haines - ChangeMaker Chat - Voices for Indi #ICYMI 46:33

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It’s been one year since the Australian Federal Election that swooped an unprecedented number of community independents into the House of Representatives, and it’s been 10 years since that “Voices for” movement started. In celebration of Voices for Indi, we are sharing this Chat with Nick Haines - in case you missed it (ICYMI). Nick worked on Cathy…

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Max Chandler-Mather - ChangeMaker Chat - Organising in Elections 41:57

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In the 2022 Australian Federal Election the Greens won an unprecedented number of seats in Queensland - producing what came to be known as the “Green Wave.” Max Chandler-Mather was at the centre of that movement - and is now the current Member for Griffith. In this conversation he shares how the Queensland Greens translated community organising tec…

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Thomas Mayo - ChangeMaker Chat - Voice To Parliament 39:59

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Australia is in the middle of a national conversation that could transform our relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. But how much do you know about the long story that sits behind the Voice to Parliament referendum? Thomas Mayo is a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man, born on Larrakia co…

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Bill McKibben - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Agitator #ICYMI 47:49

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Few people have been as effective at agitating for a stronger climate and environment movement as Bill McKibben. He has consistently pushed new strategies and thinking in the battle to save our natural environment and our climate.In celebration of his agitator spirit, we are re-sharing this #InCaseYouMissedIt episode with Bill McKibben recorded in …

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Grace Tame - ChangeMaker Chat - the challenges of making change 54:49

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Australian of the Year Grace Tame talks with us about her journey into change making and the challenges she has encountered. She talks about the power of even small action, and the impact that petitions had in the #LetHerSpeak movement. She talks about how the pathway to making change can be uneven, made difficult by the experience of trauma. It is…

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Claire ORouke - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Action 41:00

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Today we talk with Claire O’Rouke - a former journalist, climate campaigner and author of Together We Can - about the diverse and creative grassroots movement of people around Australia taking action to respond to the threat of climate change. Together We Can canvassed over 70 stories of Australians who have developed novel community based response…

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Amanda McKenzie - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Communicator 41:02

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So what do former Fire Chief Greg Mullins and Australian Cricket Captain Pat Cummins have in common? They both want action on climate change and they have both worked with Amanda McKenzie, CEO of Australia’s Climate Council, to build their strategy. Amanda is a climate communicator who has worked to catalyse different communities of people affected…

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Karen Iles - ChangeMaker Chat - Police & Sexual Assault 48:30

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Karen Iles is long time social changemaker, lawyer and victim survivor of aggravated sexual assault when she was a child. As a young adult she went to the police to lodge a statement so they would investigate the crime, only to be stymied at every turn. After almost 20 years of police inaction, she has launched a campaign to create a duty for polic…

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Jon Alexander - ChangeMaker Chat - Citizen Story 45:26

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Modern society tells subtle but powerful stories that shape how we think about how we should live together, make decisions together and what we should value. Jon Alexander has identified three of these stories - the subject story of the tyrant strong man, the consumer story of the modern market and the citizen story, as alternative ways we can be. …

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Jackie Turner - ChangeMaker Chat - Trans Movement 37:40

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There is a powerful movement led for and by the trans and gender diverse community building in Australia - and today’s ChangeMaker Chat is with one of its founders. Jackie Turner is a trans woman and a long time social justice and climate organiser. This chat explores how organising in her community has given her a new lens on how and why we make c…

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Aminata Conteh-Biger - ChangeMaker Chat - Racism and change making 46:08

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Today’s podcast looks at racism in the not for profit world. Aminata Conteh-Bigher has an extraordinary story; having developed powerful leadership qualities in Sierra Leonne civil war forced her to flee her home. In Australia she founded the Aminata Maternal Foundation to change the dangerous conditions that women face when giving birth in Sierra …

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Terri Janke - ChangeMaker Chat - True Tracks 1:00:22

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Terri Janke is an Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander Lawyer who uses the law to protect and advance Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property. As a Meriam and Wuthathi woman who grew up in Cairns in northern Queensland, for over 20 years she has crafted a set of legal instruments that allow for the protection of Indigenous Culture. From an …

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US Democracy on the Ballot: #ICYMI young people voting for their lives 45:42

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In the US midterm elections, one of the extraordinary outcomes was how many young people turned their back on some of the more extreme candidates that denied the 2020 election result. Yet should it have been so surprising? Young people have been organising like their lives depended on it for a while - including through the March for Our Lives movem…

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Miss Congeniality 54:46

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Pre-Recorded: October 11th, 2022By The Tit For Tat Show

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Fearless Cities and the Political Parties of Barcelona 28:52

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The city of Barcelona has lived with an unprecedented housing crisis, and in its wake the city created a new kind of radical and successful political party. Former housing activist Ada Colou was elected as the city’s Mayor in 2015, and again in 2019. What led to her success? This story, a re-release of our very first episode back in 2017, shares th…

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Latindian Style 46:21

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Anand Bhatt calls in to kick off the latest season of the Tit For Tat ShowBy The Tit For Tat Show

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Daniel Mulino Chat - ChangeMaker Chat - Welfare State 33:42

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One of the biggest challenges facing any change maker is how to enlist help from the state, especially when it comes to the fight for economic justice. Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament, Daniel Mulino, has written about the history and future of the welfare state, and in his recent book Safety Net proposes new (and old) ways for imagining…

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The Biggest Climate Campaign You Have Never Heard Of 46:11

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Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? Yes - the insurance industry. Over the past 5 years insurance has been turned upside down by a nimble network of climate campaigners that have set new rules to end insurance for fossil fuel projects. We are re-releasing this 2021 story of the…

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Katerina Gaita - ChangeMaker Chat - Community Independents 51:37

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How on earth did all those community independents win seats in the May 2022 Election? This ChangeMaker Chat talks to Katerina Gaita the Field Organiser and Volunteer Coordinator for Zoe Daniel’s campaign in Goldstein. She unpacks the long march of the independents, starting with Cathy McGowan winning in Indi to the ‘Wave of Teal’ in 2022. As a comm…

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Ruchira Talukdar - ChangeMaker Chat - Global Climate Justice 46:09

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While the world is striving to stop catastrophic climate change, there is plenty of conflict over how climate campaign goals are chosen and the language that is used to express them. A key fault line is between the Global North and Global South and whether campaigns about energy transition are imposed onto communities, or connected to solutions tha…

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Liz Pellicano - ChangeMaker Chat - Co-design 34:55

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Lots of people say they co-design research and policy with communities, but how do you know when co-design is being done well (and when it isn’t)? We talk to one of the world’s leading autistic participatory researchers, Professor Liz Pellicano from University College London. She shares the elements of good co-design, such as the process of interde…

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Bill McKibben - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Writer and Fighter 47:49

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This week we interview one of the world’s leading climate action warriors, Bill McKibben. Bill began as a writer, where his passion for the story and his love of nature drew him to write the first popular global book about climate change - The End of Nature. In the 2000s, dismayed at the lack of grassroots action to stop climate change he founded 3…

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Osmond Chiu - ChangeMaker Chat - Diversity and Party Politics 45:45

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Australian party politics can seriously lack diversity. This conversation is about how that can be changed. Osmond Chiu has been pushing to increase cultural diversity in the Australian Labor Party for a while. Today he shares some of the triumphs, tribulations and lessons about how change is possible - including some reflections on the highs and l…

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Peter Shergold - ChangeMakerChats - Public Servants 47:48

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In what ways are public servants ChangeMakers, and how can advocacy groups build more powerful relationships with them? This chat is with one of Australia’s most senior former public servants - Peter Shergold - who was a senior official in both the Hawke Labor Government and the Howard conservative Liberal Government. He shares stories about what i…

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Nick Haines - ChangeMaker Chats - Independents and Elections 47:04

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Nick Haines - ChangeMaker Chats - Independents and ElectionsThe 2022 Australian Election is all about the Independent ‘Teal’ Candidates - but where did this Independent movement come from? Today we talk with Nick Haines, Voices for Indi activist, and son of Helen Haines, Member for Indi, about how it all began. He shares his family’s story and how …

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People power and Elections Part 1 49:15

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This is the first of two episodes about people power in election campaigns. Today we feature a campaign by the Australian digital campaign group GetUp. This independent community movement worked to change the electoral outcome in the Tasmanian seat of Bass in 2016. The story shares lessons about how people can work in elections to have their needs …

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Where the statues fell first #RhodesMustFall 32:04

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Across the world statues and symbols dedicated to slave owners and colonialists are being removed. But before that movement started in the United States and the United Kingdom, it began in Cape Town. The is the story of #RhodesMust Fall and the South African #FeesMustFall movement that sought to not only remove the symbols of colonialism but demand…

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ChangeMaker Chat - Joshua Ross - Venture Philanthropy and money for good 41:45

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What would it take for the goodies of the world to have a growing, exponential set of resources to finance how we make change? Josh Ross explores the idea of venture philanthropy and his not-for-profit ticketing organisation Humanitix. His company is disrupting event ticketing while also raising an exponential sum for charitable causes. Seed fundin…

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Inside Russia’s brave protest movement 51:44

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Resistance to the war in Ukraine is strong, in Ukraine and also in Russia. This episode is about a housing campaign by Russian dissidents recorded in 2017. These families came together to defend urban forests - large parklands that serve as backyards for tens of thousands of Mosovites. This story documents the political pressure they faced as they …

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Wenn Lawson - ChangeMaker Chat 45:16

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The Disability Movement famously argues ‘nothing about us without us.’ Wenn Lawson lives this creed as a world leading autistic advocate and researcher who has helped change how we understand autism and neurodivergence. He shares his journey, including how he shook the house of academia so it would listen to the lives of autistic people. He reflect…

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Roasted 51:07

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Thomas and Veranda kick off the new season with the Queen of Mean herself, Lisa Lampanelli.By The Tit For Tat Show

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Mostafa (Moz) Azimitabar - ChangeMaker Chats 37:15

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Australia locks up asylum seekers if they attempt to get here by boat. But the refugees that have been subject to indefinite detention on Manus Island and in Australian hotels have resisted. Mostafa Azimitabar, Moz, has led refugee resistance from the inside using the change making skills that he developed as a Kurdish freedom fighter. Here he shar…

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The Art of Politics: Reflections on the Australian Labor Party, Refugees and Climate Change 22:12

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Logline - Examining the tough relationships between mainstream progressive parties and movements in Australia, host Amanda Tattersall looks back at her own experience. She tells the story of the 2001-2004 refugee movement’s attempt to shift the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and examines what worked, and what was learnt. Lessons are drawn for the cli…

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Stopping the Twitter Trolls 42:04

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Four years ago on Invasion Day 2018 Tarneen Onus-Williams was relentlessly and violently trolled on Twitter for a speech she gave at a protest. Social media abuse tries to shut people down. It is frighteningly common for women, for Indigenous women and women of colour. This is the story of how Amnesty crowdsourced thousands of volunteers to patrol …

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The long story of the Hong Kong Protests 1:07:50

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The Hong Kong 2019 protests were some of the largest protests ever seen in the world, and they didn’t come from nowhere. This episode explains some of the history behind the social movements in Hong Kong - from Tiananmen Square to local democracy struggles - Hong Kongers have long used and developed powerful protest strategies.For more on ChangeMak…

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Addiction, drugs and the quest for Fair Treatment 49:10

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The war on drugs has been a failed battle for decades. But what could we be doing differently? And what is a church doing running a facility where illegal drugs can be used openly? And why?For more on the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre go here.For more on the Fair Treatment campaign go here.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Websi…

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Christmas Spirit = Compassion for Refugees 26:36

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No matter what your beliefs, the moral of the Bethlehem story is that when people are in need they need compassion. While Australia’s refugee policies have infrequently followed this, Australian people have. This is the story of Baby Asha - an injured baby who was medivaced to a hospital in Brisbane and the community of people who rose up to keep t…

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Favourite Things 1:00:31

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Thomas, Veranda, and Chris get some interesting e-mails and talk about their favorite holiday gift ideas.By The Tit For Tat Show

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Scaling Change - Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small 43:54

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How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising. Our host Amanda Tattersall rea…

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The Magick Show 1:05:38

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Thomas, Veranda, and Chris are joined by award-winning author, Najah Lightfoot, as they discuss her spirituality and life in the day of a witch... and it's not what you'd think!By The Tit For Tat Show

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The Best Climate Campaign You Have Never Heard Of 46:11

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Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? Yes - the insurance industry. Over the past 5 years insurance has been turned upside down by a nimble network of climate campaigners that have set new rules to end insurance for fossil fuel projects. This is the story of the Sunrise Project, …

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