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Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AM

Daniel talks to Maria about academia, activism, allyship and (nearly) everything under the rainbow, including building up a new organisation, tracing her Southern Italian heritage… Read More…

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Gerard Mansour

Daniel talks to Gerard about long and winding careers, personal re-invention, attitudes to ageing and elder abuse – as well as how we can understand… Read More…

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The Hon Harriet Shing MLC

Daniel talks to Harriet about finding her voice and place in the world, the highs and lows of politics, her career as a lawyer, and… Read More…

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Loose Change Podcast – Dan Stubbs

Daniel talks to Dan about his journey from Macleod Tech to become Victoria’s first Disability Worker Commissioner – with international development work, community legal centres… Read More…

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Loose Change Podcast – Dr Mohamed Mohideen OAM JP

Daniel talks to Dr Mohamed Mohideen OAM JP about his work on the Victorian covid vaccine rollout; racism and islamophobia since 9-11; growing up in… Read More…

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Loose Change Podcast – Dr Chris Lemoh

Daniel talks to Dr Chris Lemoh about Australia’s anglocentric approach to health care; the mistakes made during the ‘hard lockdown’ of public housing residents in… Read More…

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Loose Change Podcast – Hunter Lee

Daniel talks to Lee about digital campaigning, youth-led movements, racism in the progressive community and growing up in the Hillsong Church as a trans-nonbinary young… Read More…

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Loose Change Podcast – Jason Davies-Kildea

Daniel talks to Jason Davies-Kildea about poverty, mental health policy, the importance of lived experience and the faith that continues to guide him through work… Read More…

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Loose Change Podcast – Sally Goldner AM

Daniel talks to Sally Goldner about the fight for equality, country and western music, lateral hostility and her proudest moments. Sally is a quiet rockstar… Read More…

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Brighter Futures Outer East

Brighter Futures Outer East connects local young people who have experienced out-of-home care with community members who want to help them achieve their goals in… Read More…

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Make Renting Fair

In 2015 Consumer Affairs Victoria announced a full review of Victoria’s rental laws, which had not been meaningfully updated in twenty years. During that time… Read More…

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The problems with hacks

‘A political hack is a negative term ascribed to a person who is part of the political party apparatus, but whose intentions are more aligned… Read More…

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Promoting energy efficiency

Ecovantage engaged Social Change Projects to help promote a range of energy efficiency programs offered under Victoria’s VEET scheme (now known as the VEU program)… Read More…

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Putting horse racing out of its misery

Today is the Melbourne Cup. It’s a big deal. Over 100,000 people will be drinking and gambling themselves silly at a park in Flemington while… Read More…

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Social media for social change

Note: This was first published on 22 April 2015 by Informa Australia In the lead up to the upcoming Homelessness Summit in Sydney, Daniel Scoullar,… Read More…

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Labor and the Greens play ‘Deal or No Deal’ in Victoria (Crikey)

Note: This article was originally published by Crikey on 10 November 2014 Labor and the Greens are so hellbent on destroying each other that neither… Read More…

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Pride March packs a punch (Star Observer)

Acting Equal Opportunity Commissioner Karen Toohey has said Victoria still has along way to go on homophobic and transphobic harassment just days before the state’s… Read More…

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No to Homophobia Campaign update (Joy FM)

Daniel Scoullar Media Spokesperson for No To Homophobia joins us for a wrap up of the year that was and drops a couple of hints… Read More…

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No to Homophobia

The harms of prejudice, harassment and bullying have become more widely understood in recent years, however this has not always been the case. Back in… Read More…

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Fine line between pain and pleasure for Lib voters in Melbourne (Crikey)

The state seat of Melbourne is absolutely irrelevant in terms of who forms government, yet it is centre stage in one of our most fascinating… Read More…

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Tunisia… Egypt… Libya… Let’s look closer to home (Online Opinion)

The mass uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other nearby countries have put despotic rulers, human rights abuses and self-determination into our nightly news bulletins… Read More…

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Online news comments reveal deep anger and shallow understanding (Online Opinion)

Recently, The Age’s front page carried a story titled “Crisis in Public Housing” detailing unacceptably long waits for people in need of public housing in Victoria. At… Read More…