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The Case for the "Quiet" Activist

I'm a long time "wanna-be" social justice activist, but being a conflict averse introvert, I was never really built for it.

Aunty Dale knows you’re hungry for knowledge

A champion for Indigenous businesses, Aunty Dale Chapman is changing the conversation around bush foods and cultural equality one dish at a time...

With paint and purpose, Amanda Hinkelmann is allowing the truth-telling to happen

When Amanda Hinkelmann sits down to create, she prepares to tell a story. Her language of choice is paint and brushes, thick impastos and smooth acrylics that whisper and yell with varying degrees of tone and colour....

A sisterhood of difference: how SisterWorks empowers women from all backgrounds

Over the past nine years as a social enterprise, SisterWorks has supported over 1400 women from 95 countries in their transition to life in Australia. There are around 300 women actively involved with, and being supported by, the non-for-profit at any one time. The organisation was founded by Luz Restrepo, who arrived in Australia from Colombia in 2010 seeking political asylum...

This Gift Hamper fights Climate Change

Climate Action: We have eight years to save the planet.

After decades of frankly criminal inaction on the part of our election cycle-obsessed governments, we're now on a dangerous trajectory of runaway climate change. Action needs to be dramatic and fast. A lot has happened in the climate action space in recent weeks...