Latest news & stories
Welcome to the stories of Australia reMADE!
Consider this a source of ideas and inspiration, behind the scenes reflections and insights, as we work together to create the Australia of our dreams. These are the stories about how we can and are working together to create the best version of us: a country defined by courage and compassion, where people and planet come first.
Change is coming, how do we shape it for peace?
Change is coming, so how do we shape it for peace? Australia reMADE Chair Louise Tarrant shares her thoughts for the UN’s International Peace Day.
Mapping the Future we can Embrace
There is plenty of evidence that offering a greater vision of what you’re for and talking about solutions is highly effective. But it takes practice, and the deliberate choice to shift our focus again and again from, ‘how do we stop what’s wrong’, to, ‘how do we build what’s right?’…
Making Space for Utopia: the power of knowing and saying what you’re for
Students at the University of Tasmania began a divestment campaign that took a surprising twist when they came out FOR something…
Dare to Dream: one Rabbi's call for vision
Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio shares her thoughts on what happens when, as a society, we get so caught up in the day to day dramas that we forget to dream…
“A place where everyone contributes, matters and belongs”
Following on from our interview with Mark Zirnsak of the Uniting Church, we recently sat down Laura Barnes of QCOSS (Queensland Council of Social Service) to get a different organisational perspective on the art of putting vision into action…
Vision - why bother?
We recently sat down with Mark Zirnsak, a Senior Social Justice Advocate with the Uniting Church of Australia (UCA) in Victoria and Tasmania and an early supporter of Australia reMADE. We asked Mark about the thinking that sparked the UCA’s new vision, how they wrote it, how they’re using it; and how people who share a common vision can continue to work together better for the world we want…
The makings of a vision
In 2017 we went on a national listening expedition, connecting with hundreds of people representing communities around Australia. We asked them to dream out loud about the Australia they truly want, and to think about how such a transformation might happen…