Welcome to the reMAKERS…

…a conversation that asks, ‘what is the best version of us, and how do we actually build it?’ How can we be more collaborative, transformative and ambitious? How can we help change systems, not just treat symptoms?

This is your home for nuanced, curious chats with Lily and Millie, alongside some of our most impactful leaders, thinkers and reMAKERs from all walks of life. It’s about politics and social change, about humans and all our weird and wonderful ways, about celebrating what we love while we reMAKE even more of the world we want. It’s a place to try on big ideas, change our minds, hear different perspectives and explore less chartered territory. Guests’ views are their own, obviously, and it would be pretty boring if we always agreed with each other.

Lily and Millie record their part of these conversations on Gubbi Gubbi Country, Sunshine Coast; and on muwinina country, lutruwita/Tasmania respectively. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of these lands and waters, honouring Elders past and present.

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I’m Lily Spencer, host of The reMAKERS podcast. I’m from the US originally but have called Australia home for more than two decades — where I’ve spent my career working in politics, activism, social enterprises and impact communications.

After farewelling Sydney and its eye-watering house prices I now live with my family on the Sunshine Coast, Gubbi Gubbi Country, in QLD — a fittingly beautiful spot to be inspired by nature and possibility. I’ve got two young kids and two young dogs. Things are messy. Caffeine is required.

I enjoy bringing our listeners conversations that ask, ‘why not?’, highlight solutions and embrace uncertainty and nuance. I enjoy assuming the best of each other, even when we disagree. I also like to unpack ideas Millie and I are working on, narrating our learning as we go rather than only sharing the ‘ta-dah’ at the end.

You can find me on LinkedIn, Insta or Threads (@lilyspencer_words). Read my work on our blog and elsewhere in publications like Dumbo Feather and Australian Quarterly. Get in touch via email: podcast@AustraliareMADE.org.


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I’m Millie Rooney, Director of Australia reMADE and regular cohost on the reMAKERS!

As a kid, I spent hours collecting toothbrushes outside supermarkets for Gulf War refugees and, although I wasn’t allowed to watch movies for fear of scary themes like ‘divorce’, was aware from a young age of scarier things like ‘war’. As a result, my childhood dream was to become a butterfly dancer on stilts, catch the eye of a journalist and make it to the front page of the paper so that there could be some good news for once. Is it any surprise I ended up involved in something like Australia reMADE?

Prior to joining Australia reMADE I also worked as an environment officer at both the Australian National University and the University of Tasmania. At the latter, I attended a single seminar on the power of ‘delight not fright’ that changed the course of my life and work. It’s a funny world.

I grew up in Canberra on Ngunnawal country, and although I now call Tasmania home, I still miss the dry scrappy dirt, the warble of the magpies and the smooth, flat bike paths.  You can find me on Twitter at @_MillieRooney, or get in touch with me and the team at info@AustraliareMADE.org

Show credits:

The reMAKERS is produced by the multi-talented Anna Wilson.

Thanks to our Chair (and source of wisdom and sanity) Louise Tarrant.

 
 

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