Different world views

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1 Oct 2025

Looking Ahead: How Social Workers are Shaping the Future of Mental Health

On 23 September, we brought together the local social work community for a special panel exploring the future of mental health. Our guests, including...
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1 Sep 2025

National Disability Insurance Scheme: what we are doing to support you

In this episode, we bring you highlights from our 2 September 2025 webinar, National Disability Insurance Scheme, what we are doing to support you,...
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5 Dec 2023

Health through the widest lens, Part 2: Kim Hobbs and award winning teamwork

Last month we brought you a repeat of our earlier conversation with Rosalie Pockett AM.  Just as we were planning to re-broadcast the follow up...
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31 Oct 2023

Social Workers Improving Healthcare: Part 1 Rosalie Pockett AM and Health Inequity

This month we bring you an encore release of our conversation with Rosalie Pocket AM who has spent years overturning the inequities and injustices...
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3 Oct 2023

The Social Worker in the Library

For many people who see a social worker, it is because they are already involved in our health or community services system, and they are referred by...
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5 Sep 2023

Out of the ‘Too Hard Basket’

When young people walk through Alex Wilson’s door, they are already carrying the stigma from their long involvement in our mental health system. ...
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1 Aug 2023

Ethical decisions at the end of life

Jane Sullivan OAM’s career has spanned paid and unpaid work, community services and the health system, social work and psychology, church...
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11 Jul 2023

Walk With Us to a Better Future: The Voice to Parliament and the Road Ahead

Professor Tom Calma AO is one of Australia’s most respected human rights and social justice campaigners. He is Senior Australian of the Year 2023,...
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6 Jun 2023

Supporting widowed people in rural communities

Michelle Moriarty has won an award for establishing groups for widowed people in rural Australia to support each other. But Michelle is not going to...
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2 May 2023

Digital inclusion, community development and social justice

When a technology company invited a social worker to join their digital literacy project, it was because they hoped her social work skills would be...