Events
‘Book Club Live’ - hosted by Good Together
Thursday 6 November 2025 - 4:00 pm 5:30 pm AWST - Online
One of our wonderful readers, Matt Berry, is hosting a live online book club panel on 6th November. Join myself, Sisonke Msimang and Dan Hill as we chat about what we like (and in my case don’t like) about Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.
Reading to reMAKE - ongoing
Reading to reMAKE is a regular reading group for anyone wanting a facilitated space to delve into some of the important ideas of our times. Over the course of the year, we’ll read chapters from authors like Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit, Yanis Varoufakis and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Deep thinkers who question where we are, how we got here and what we might help to happen next.
We welcome anyone who wants to collectively explore new ways of thinking regardless of formal levels of education. The aim is to create a space where we can test ideas, discard them after consideration if they don’t fit and build on them if they do; a space to think together. It will require an openness and willingness to allow ourselves to be ‘wrong’ and to change our minds, to listen, to experiment and to play with ideas and possibilities.
Latest media
Love me like it’s the end of the world - The Everywoman by Victoria Pearson
Millie was recently interviewed for an article in The Everywoman magazine that asked the question Is there room for a politics of love in our modern world?
“Millie Rooney, executive director of Australia reMADE, frames this plainly: “Knowing your neighbour is disaster infrastructure,” she tells me. Rooney’s work involves building new civic narratives that prioritise care and belonging over productivity or profit… It means ensuring everyone has enough to eat. That people have time to volunteer, to participate in civic life, to show up for each other. “There is nothing efficient about love,” she says. “And that’s its beauty”.
Millie discussing what the public service should be and who it should serve in The Mandarin
Millie talking Caring through Disaster with Amanda Kelly and Sharon Bessell on the Policy Forum Pod
Rachel talking Care through Disaster on The Sustainable Hour podcast
Article on ABC news explaining some of the key findings from the Care through Disaster report.
Millie discussing the Care through Disaster report on ABC NEWS
Listen to Millie discuss findings from the Care through Disaster report on ABC morning radio starting at 2:12
Collaboration with Goodlife Permaculture and animator Vivien Mason in The Mercury
Getting the public service in the public good conversation. Canberra Times by Dr Millie Rooney
WHGNE announce new research project: caring for communities through disaster in the Wangaratta Chronicle
What do we want the public service to be? The Mandarin by Dr Millie Rooney
Partnerships in disaster prevention, management and recovery on Earth Chat with Amanda Kelly, WHGNE CEO
Australia reMADE and WHGNE’s Care through Disaster project on ABC Radio, Shepparton, Breakfast, with Dr Millie Rooney, beginning at 47.13 minutes
Pieces of the Same Solution: reimagining the public good (2022) in Australian Quarterly by Dr Millie Rooney and Lily Spencer
Knowing Our Power in Tumultuous Times (2022) in Dumbo Feather by Lily Spencer
Where is Our Budget for the Public Good? (2022) in The Tasmanian Times by Dr Millie Rooney
Can we envision a government dedicated to the public good? (2022) in Pro Bono by Dr Millie Rooney
This country can’t afford to have a part time government (2021) in The Canberra Times by Louise Tarrant
What are Universities for? (2021) in The Tasmanian Times by Dr Millie Rooney
Ours is to reason why (2021) in Crossroads by Dr Millie Rooney
Bold change comes when we energise hope (2019) in The Guardian by Louise Tarrant
The vision splendid? A24 and its grassroots push for a new Australia (2018) in The Guardian by Anne Davies
Past events
We’ve had such a positive response to this work and so we’ll be co-hosting a quarterly online community of practice for anyone interested in coming together to discuss, build on, and action these ideas and recommendations.
Care through Disaster Community of Practice
Care through Disaster Launch
Whether it's climate impacts like fire and flood or a global pandemic, disaster is no longer unprecedented. So what do we need to care for each other well – before, during and after a disaster?
a conversation with Women’s Health Goulburn North East. Rewatch it here!
a conversation with Women’s Health Goulburn North East. Rewatch it here!
a conversation with Women’s Health Goulburn North East. Rewatch it here!
Paper presentation, BIEN: Crisis and Transformation Conference (26th September - 28th September), Basic Income Earth Network
Presentation, Women’s Climate Congress: Renewal (11th September - 12th September), Women’s Climate Congress, Dr Millie Rooney
Keynote, SEGRA: Regional Activity, Transition and Sustainability Conference (31st August - 2nd September),
Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia, Dr Millie Rooney
Panel guest, Healthy Conversations: Reimagining the future, Climate and Health Alliance, Dr Millie Rooney
Progress Leaders (2022), closing remarks, Lily Spencer
Community of Practice: Wellbeing reMADE (recording), Women’s Health Golbourn North East, Dr Millie Rooney
Science for the Public Good (2022), Australian Academy of Science, Dr Millie Rooney
“reMAKING the world we want: bringing hope and vision to the work that you” address for the ‘Back to the future’ conference, Community Legal Centres NSW (2021), Lily Spencer
Together? Apart? Where are we?? (2020), The Green Institute, Dr Millie Rooney
Staying Together While Keeping Apart (2020), The Green Institute, Dr Millie Rooney
External podcasts
We have loved being guests on these wonderful podcasts! Click on them to listen and be sure to check out our own podcast - the reMAKERS.
