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Podcast Category: Social justice


National Disability Insurance Scheme: what we are doing to support you
1 Sep 2025
In this episode, we bring you highlights from our 2 September 2025 webinar, National Disability Insurance Scheme, what we are doing to support you,...
Health through the widest lens, Part 2: Kim Hobbs and award winning teamwork
5 Dec 2023
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...
Social Workers Improving Healthcare: Part 1 Rosalie Pockett AM and Health Inequity
31 Oct 2023
This month we bring you an encore release of our conversation with Rosalie Pocket AM who has spent years overturning the inequities and injustices...
Digital inclusion, community development and social justice
2 May 2023
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...
Mental Health and Human Rights: From a communal underwear cupboard to Allyship
1 Nov 2022
When Anne-Maree Newbold OAM commenced her career, the residents of the large stand-alone psychiatric hospital in which she worked slept in...
Still Plenty to Fight For
5 Jul 2022
The work and life of Max Cornwell OAM have been guided by a humanistic impulse; a preference for the democratic and emancipatory. He joined the...
Leaving no one behind
6 Apr 2022
What kind of world do we want? The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals describe one vision of a world which respects rights, shares prosperity and...
Orienteers, Pilgrims, Explorers
7 Dec 2021
Dr Ann O’Neill AM has survived the unimaginable. In fact she has done more than survive: Ann has used her experience as the basis for further...
Imelda, Michael and his Fairweather Friends
5 Oct 2021
Imelda Dodds was in her first job as a social worker when she came across Michael who needed to be protected from his ‘fair-weather friends’. At that...
Public Disaster and Private Trauma
1 Feb 2021
Like many people we at the AASW watched the January 2020 bushfires with horror. In late January 2020, host Angela Scarfe contacted a member, Jo, who...