Interviews Archives

A portrait of Frank Hall-Bentick. He has short hair, is wearing glasses and is wearing a jumper with a red collar shirt. The text heading reads 'A Patient Man'. The text paragraph reads 'Frank Hall-Bentick has spent almost forty years fighting for the rights of people with disabilities. As part of the Disability Resources Centre’s Leadership Series, he speaks to Anja Homburg about his life and work.'

Disability Advocates and Campaigners in Australia: Frank Hall-Bentick

An interview with Frank Hall-Bentick. Frank was one of Australia’s most prolific and celebrated disability advocates and campaigners.

Carly Findlay- a woman with a red face and short dark curly hair, tied up in a colourful scarf. She’s wearing a pomegranate print dress over a grey top. She’s smiling. Yellow text on a blue background reads All about Carly Findlay: Writer, Speaker, Disability and Appearance Activist. There are yellow wavy lines on the top and bottom of image and yellow and red dots above Carly's head.

All about Carly Findlay: Writer, Speaker, Disability and Appearance Activist

Learn all about Carly Findlay-writer, speaker, disability and appearance activist in Australia-through her books, articles, podcasts & videos.

Australian Radio Shows by and for People with Disability

A list of Australian radio shows interested in disability rights and social justice including InvincAbility, Only Human & Chronically Chilled.

All about El Gibbs: Disability Advocate

Learn all about El Gibbs, an Australian Disability Advocate, through her writing and books, podcasts and webinars.

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Disability Visibility: Stories and Podcasts

Stories & podcasts about disability rights, social justice, advocacy & intersectionality by Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project.

podcast cover. Title reads Yarning Disability with the First Peoples Disability Network FPDN. In the centre is an illustration of four circles connected by four curved lines. In the bottom left hand corner is a photo of podcast host Bernard Namok, a proud St Paul, Badu, and Erub Torres Strait Islander man, wearing headphones at an audio control desk. He is smiling.

The First Peoples Disability Network: Yarning Disability Podcast

Stories of First Nations peoples living with a disability to highlight the lived experiences of First Nations people with a disability in Australia.

Lessons from Campaigning for AIDs Activism with Sarah Schulman

Introduction This episode features an interview by Commons Librarian Holly Hammond with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and historian Sarah Schulman. They discuss the nature of effective coalitions, the challenges of accurately documenting social movements, and lessons from campaigns led by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) during the 1980s and 1990s. A participant in […]

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Insights from Disability Campaigning from El Gibbs and Elly Desmarchelier

Disability rights campaigners chat about how campaigns can be more effective & accessible, history and the importance of rest and fun.

Stick Together Podcast: Union News, Workers’ Stories and Social Justice Issues

Podcast about union and workplace justice issues featuring in depth stories and interviews from the frontlines of the workers’ movement.

Commons Conversations Podcast: Insights into Activism

Commons Conversations Podcast – Interviews with campaigners about insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more.

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Systems Thinking and Campaigning: An Interview with Nicky Ison

This interview with Nicky Ison includes tools and ideas for how to incorporate systems thinking into your campaign work and strategy.

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The Craft of Campaigns: A Podcast for Organisers

A podcast that goes behind the headlines and hashtags, inviting movement storytellers to share lessons from social justice campaigns.

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How to Conduct Interviews: Tips and Checklist

Tips and checklist on how to prepare, conduct, produce entertaining and informative interviews from Nicky Stott, Community Radio 3CR trainer.

Close up of two Opera House building sails or the triangular parts of the building. On one reads NO WAR in red paint and there are people standing on top of the sail. They are silhouetted against a blue sky with faint white clouds.

No War Opera House Graffiti Action: An Interview with Dave Burgess

Interview with Dave Burgess who graffitied No War onto the Sydney Opera House to show opposition to the war in Iraq in 2003.

Three people at a table outside with white tablecloth that has word BlackRock on it. The people are eating fake money. A banner in the background says When the last tree is dead, the last fish is caught and the last river is poisoned, you will realise that you cannot eat money. The woman seated on the left wears a sign on her chest that reads BlackRock is the real enemy.

“You can’t eat money”: An interview with Extinction Rebellion activist Jo Flanagan

Interview with an Extinction Rebellion activist about a protest against BlackRock in 2019. She explains how the action was conceptualised, organised & run.