SocialChange

In mid-May this year I was involved in running the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY Roadtrip. It was a huge project – one that I started working on in May 2009, and which consumed most waking hours for at least 5 months. You can download the impact report here.
Along with Viv Benjamin, Tom O’Connor and a whole host of [...]

Media coverage. Lots of media coverage. One of the holy grails for social change campaigning. Hundreds of thousands of people – even millions – hearing, reading or seeing your message through the wonders of mass distributed or broadcast media.
Getting media coverage for your social change initiative is easy. Ridiculously easy. In this post I’ll show [...]

I had this article published in both The Punch and The Canberra Times.
Australians’ obsession with interest rates and house prices is not the only symptom of an ‘affluence anxiety’ afflicting the nation. We have also cut ourselves off from the reality of life for every second child on the planet who lives in poverty and [...]

What does it take to create thousands of dedicated and effective agents of change agitating for an end to global poverty? This was the question that we asked at Oaktree last year, but I wanted to explore our response here.
The Global Changers Leadership Program is our attempt to answer that question. It’s an 8 month [...]

I’ve been working for the United Nations Millennium Campaign for over a week now, and I thought I’d take some time to reflect on what is truly a remarkable organisation.
It’s not so much what the UNMC does, nor is it the people – though both are also impressive. What’s really impressive is that the UNMC [...]

So I’m currently working with the United Nations in Bangkok. I’m here for two weeks helping the Asia Pacific branch of the United Nations Millennium Campaign design an international youth mobilisation strategy.
I have approached the experience with a mixture of excitement and cynicism. As a committed humanitarian, I’ve long had an enormous admiration for the [...]

A wonderful dinner with great food, meeting lots of inspiring and interesting people, and great conversations. What more could you want in an evening?
This evening was the third #samehuman dinner, a concept that Steve Hopkins, Ned Dwyer and I started towards the end of last year.
This evening was a diverse crowd – with [...]

My article in today’s National Times can be found here or you can read below:
DRUNKEN violence. Climate change. Financial turmoil. Drought. Bushfires. Earthquakes. Natural disasters. There is so much to be concerned about, so much to occupy our dinner-table conversations. Extreme poverty is old news. A child dying every three seconds? Boring, heard it all [...]