Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Community Organiser and Head Teaching Fellow for the Leadership, Organising and Action class at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Ashraf Hazmah. Ashraf joins the show to chat about his journey, from organising for change in Syria, to working alongside legend, Marshall Ganz, as Head Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School in the Leadership, Organizing and Action program. If you’re interested in learning how you...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Democratic consultant and state director for the Georgia Run-Off, Jonae Wartel. Jonae calls in from Washington, DC to unpack the results from the out-of-cycle November election season and what this means for Democrats hopes in Nov 2024, Biden’s dip in the polls, the Republican civil war in Congress and the latest Republican Presidential debate of the b-team. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dun...
Nov 10, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by former Chief of Staff to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and now the Managing Director of Capital NZ, Neale Jones. Neale is back again to unpack the disappointing results from the New Zealand national elections, which took place on October 14, and give a review of Labor’s election campaign and reflect on the legacy of the Ardern-Hipkins Labour governments. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcas...
Nov 02, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Australian Young Labor President, Manu Risoldi. Manu joins the show to chat about her entry into politics and youth leadership, and the role AYL plays representing the youth wing of the Labor Party. She discusses the fall out from the Yes campaign and the impact this result has on young people’s attitudes towards politics, the issues AYL is campaigning on in 2023 including unpaid student placements, housing, and climate. ...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by former Co-Chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria Marcus Stewart, Professor of Political Communication, Prof Andrea Carson from Latrobe University, and researcher John Armitage to discuss Saturday’s Voice Referendum. Marcus, Andrea, and John return to Socially Democratic to break down the disappointing results from last weekend’s Voice to Parliament referendum, and reflect on what this means for self determinatio...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Co-Chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria Rueben Berg, Professor of Political Communication, Prof Andrea Carson from Latrobe University, and researcher John Armitage to discuss the Voice Referendum. With the referendum campaign days away from conclusion, our expert panel discuss how the two campaigns have framed their campaign messages in the final week, where the money is being spent with online ads, what the p...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by former Chief of Staff to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and now the Managing Director of Capital NZ, Neale Jones. Neale returns to the show to give us the latest insights on the New Zealand election campaign, with Kiwi’s voting on October 14. He details the state of the race between Labor’s Chris Hipkins and National’s Chris Luxon, what the polls are telling us, what is the tone of the campaign, and how the deb...
Oct 05, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Dutch activist for the PVDA and host of the upcoming Forging Links podcast, Ali Hashem, and councillor of the Hague Labor Party, Mikal Tseggai. Ali and Mikal join the show from the Hague to chat about their political journeys, in particular Mikal who is the youngest city councillor in the Hague’s history, and fill us in on the upcoming Dutch Elections. Keep an eye out for Forging Links, which will premiere on Spotify in t...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Democratic consultant and state director for the Georgia Run-Off, Jonae Wartel. While Dunn Street was in Washington D.C. for our annual US Engagement Mission, Stephen caught up with Jonae to chat about the upcoming Republican primaries, the ongoing Trump drama, and looking forward to 2024 and what Joe Biden needs to win a second term. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dunn Street. For more infor...
Sep 17, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by National Secretary for the CPSU, Melissa Donnelly. Mel joins the show for the first time to chat about her journey into the union movement, the challenges public sector workers faced under the previous federal government, lessons learned, how COVID reset the idea of “workplace”, and where the CPSU is seeking to make improvements with the new federal Labor government. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podca...
Sep 07, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Director at QDOS research group John Armitage. John returns to Socially Democratic to discuss the Voice Referendum: how the Yes and No Campaigns have changed the messaging since we last spoke, what the good and bad polling data tells us, and lays out the path to victory for the Yes campaign in this historic referendum. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dunn Street. For more information on how Du...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by founder of Love Reacts Only - a digital and social media consultancy and the former Digital Director for Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, Eloise Young; the campaign director and state secretary of Queensland Labor, Kate Flanders, and National Training Organiser for ALP National Secretariat, Nadia Montague, for a conversation on Modern Campaigns - the second episode of Socially Democratic recorded live at the 2023 ALP Nation...
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by ACTU President, Michele O'Neil and TWU National Secretary, Michael Kaine. They join Stephen for the first of TWO live recordings of Socially Democratic, as part of ALP National Conference Fringe. Michele and Michael discuss the state of the Australian Trade Union movement after 9 years of conservative rule, identifying what needs immediate change under a new Labor government, and look towards creating safer, fairer w...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by founder of Fireside Agency, Ben Hart. Working in environment media and communications since 1997, Fireside’s Ben Hart joins the show to discuss how the environmental movement communicates to voters, why it struggles to persuade the community to act on climate change, and what needs to be done to overcome this communication problem. Fireside amplifies your positive impact through powerful storytelling. Find out how: firesi...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Rebecca Thistleton from the McKell Institute - Victoria and for his Socially Democratic debut Matthew Lloyd Cape from the Centre for Equitable Housing (a Per Capita Initiative). Together, Rebecca and Matthew unpack the Australian Housing Crisis: the problem, its cause, impact, and discuss what solutions are needed to address an issue affecting renters, homeowners and home-seekers alike. From social housing to home ownersh...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by former researcher with the US based Analyst Institute and Israeli based progressive campaign consultant Will Cubbison. In Israel this week the right wing coalition government led by Benjamin Netenyahu voted to cut the powers of the independent judiciary, ignoring months of weekly protests by 100,000s of progressive citizens. Will Cubbison joins us from Israel to discuss the drama from inside Knesset and on the streets of ...
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister of the Arts, Tony Burke. A long time listener, first time guest, Tony joins the show to chat about his journey from paper boy organiser to politician, touching on some of the important milestones from his 20 years in office. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dunn Street. For more information on how Dunn Street can help you organise to ...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Executive Director of the Chifley Research Centre, David Epstein. David joins the show to chat about his political journey from a Labor household to chief of staff in the Rudd government, to executive director of Labor's official think tank - the Chifley Research Centre. David discusses the role Chifley plays in the development of policy for the movement and how they will facilitate a robust discussion at the upcomin...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Federal Labor MP Josh Burns, Democratic strategist Jonae Wartel, former ALP Secretary David Feeney for our 200th Episode! To celebrate our double tonne, Stephen is joined by fan favourites, Josh, Jonae, and David to chat about all things social democrats love to chat about: politics, campaigning, organising, unions, elections and more! And, in a fun twist, Josh Burns turns the tables on Stephen, taking on the role of inte...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by National Campaigns Director at SEC Newgate, Lenda Oshalem. Lenda returns to the show to discuss the 2022 Federal Election campaign review for the ALP National Executive, which she, alongside Greg Combet AM, Craig Emerson, and Sen Linda White, conducted following Labor’s successful campaign in May 2022. She shares the review’s insights into what worked for the Labor campaign, areas for growth and discusses key recommendati...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by organiser and founder of the Amazon Labor Union, Christian Smalls. At the height of COVID pandemic, Amazon employee, Christian Smalls went from being an essential worker to unemployed overnight to then attracting international interest when he and his fellow workers became the first to successfully organise an Amazon warehouse facility in the United States. In this special episode, Chris shares his courageous journey from...
Jun 22, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by National Youth Convenor for the Australian Republican Movement, Michael Cooney Jr. Michael joins the show to chat about his role in the Australian Republican Movement, how the movement is progressing in the wake of a changing of the guard in the British monarchy, lessons from the 1999 referendum defeat, and how the Voice referendum can inform a future referendum campaign on becoming a republic. The presenting sponsor of t...
Jun 15, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute, Claire Ainsley. Claire joins the show to discuss the Project on Centre-Left Renewal and how it aims to make center-left parties more competitive and improve their governing performance. She also discusses her journey into politics and towards working for the Progressive Policy Institute. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic po...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Chief of Staff and Managing Director at Capital NZ, Neale Jones. Neale dials in from Aotearoa to provide an update on NZ politics as we prepare for the general election on 14 October. Neale talks about Labour’s new policy direction under new PM, Chris Hipkins, and how he framed Labour’s election campaign at the party’s National Congress held this weekend in Wellington. He reflects on h...
Jun 01, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Executive Director of McKell Victoria, Rebecca Thistleton. Rebecca breaks down the Andrew’s Government 2023 Victorian State Budget, which was dropped this Tuesday - what's in it, the winners - people, the losers - corporate greed, and what it means for Victoria's economic future. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dunn Street. For more information on how Dunn Street can help you organis...
May 25, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Director at QDOS research group John Armitage and Professor of Political Communication at La Trobe University, Dr Andrea Carson. John and Andrea join Stephen to discuss the Australian media landscape, the Murdoch Press, its influence on the Liberal party. In the second half of the show they discuss the Voice to Parliament Referendum and foundations of the two campaigns and their respective propositions to the electorate a...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Executive Director for Per Capita, Emma Dawson. Emma returns to the show to unpack the key details from the 2023 Federal Budget which was released earlier this week, such as the notable investments into Health, Energy, Housing, and First Nations. She also discusses the media’s coverage of the budget, the Opposition’s responses, and the anticipated implications from these new investments (including a projected surplus). Th...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by Executive Director for Per Capita, Emma Dawson. Emma shares her expectations for the upcoming 2023 Federal Budget, the Albanese Government’s first official budget, and discusses the pressure Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under to provide a budget surplus after inheriting a deficit left by the 12 years of poor economic management from the Liberals. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dunn Street. For m...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by ACTU Assistant Secretary Scott Connolly. Last time Scott was on the show, we were in the middle of lockdowns. Today, Scott returns to chat about the focus the union movement will take under a new Labor government including wage growth, bargaining, organising and training and improving superannuation. The presenting sponsor of the Socially Democratic podcast is Dunn Street. For more information on how Dunn Street can help ...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dunn Street founder and Community Organiser Stephen Donnelly was joined by International Secretary for the Irish Labour Party, David Kitching. David dials in from Dublin to discuss the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, outlining the historical, international, and political context of the landmark peace agreement - which ended the Troubles. They also discuss US President Joe Biden’s visit to the emerald isle and the contrasting receptions POTUS received from the Irish and Eng...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
