People working to change systems from the ground up — community leaders, researchers, activists and practitioners. Through short series and conversations, you’ll hear big ideas, urgent debates, and practical examples of community-led solutions in action. This podcast was previously called Life's Lottery, and relaunched in 2026 as Change the Story. Produced by UTS Impact Studios.
Latest episodes
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13 min
Where to from here? | The Shopfront Story Ep 3
After 30 years of community engagement, a new question emerges - where to from here?Shopfront has survived changes in leadership, funding pressures, shifting university priorities…
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17 min
Beyond the Classroom | The Shopfront Story Ep 4
What happens when learning leaves the classroom and enters the real world?Recorded at Shopfront's 30th anniversary celebration, the final episode in this special series brings toge…
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15 min
Learning Together | The Shopfront Story Ep2
Universities are often described as places of teaching and research. But what responsibility do they have to the communities around them?In this episode, we move beyond individual…
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20 min
Where It All Began | The Shopfront Story Ep1
How did a small university program become a bridge between students, academics and communities for more than 30 years?In this first episode, we explore the origins of UTS Shopfront…
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22 min
Body Mapping - making the invisible visible | Mapping What Matters Ep4
What if some of a community's greatest strengths can't be captured in a survey, a spreadsheet - or even a map?If Episode 3 encouraged us to see the wider system, this episode invit…
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14 min
The Harwood Approach - turning Outward | Mapping What Matters Ep5
What happens when we stop planning for communities and start listening to them instead?Bringing together the themes explored throughout the series, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined b…
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14 min
Appreciative Inquiry - starting with strengths | Mapping What Matters Ep2
What if the very first question we ask determines everything that follows?In this episode of Mapping What Matters, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by social impact practitioner and…
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16 min
Life-centred Design - seeing the bigger picture | Mapping What Matters Ep3
How can we move beyond mapping what exists to designing the futures our communities need?Having explored strengths-based thinking in the previous episodes, host Dr. Katie Blair is…
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8 min
Returning to the roots of asset mapping | Mapping What Matters Ep
What is asset mapping and why is it time to rethink it?In the opening episode, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by Professor Amanda Howard to explore the origins of asset mapping and…
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30 min
Ethical belonging | My Language My Country Ep6
In this final episode, we explore what it means to be colonisers on colonised lands.If we’re migrants from a colonising country like Japan, are our perspectives and connections to…
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27 min
Learning Together | My Language My Country Ep5
Saying an Acknowledgement in our mother languages inspires us to learn more about First Nations histories and cultures.But many migrants and new settlers claim that they know littl…
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29 min
Waking up languages | My Language My Country Ep4
How are languages that have been dormant being revived by First Nations peoples?We hear from Dr Lachlan McDaniel and Professor Lindon Coombes of the Jumbanna Institute for Indigeno…
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29 min
Listening to Country | My Language My Country Ep3
How has English dominance marginalised First Nations knowledges?We hear from Gudanji/Wakaja author and academic Dr Debra Dank about how Aboriginal people’s expressive practices and…
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28 min
Multilingual homes | My Language My Country Ep2
What does embracing multilingualism sound like?In this episode, we hear from two poets who challenge the dominance of English by creating bold, multilingual poetry.How do these poe…
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26 min
Acknowledging Country in Our Mother Languages | My Language My Country Ep1
What happens when we say an Acknowledgement of Country in our mother languages?Would it feel different? More meaningful?Does it change the way we connect to First Nations peoples a…
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4 min
Introducing My Language My Country
Around 350 languages are spoken in homes across Australia, yet we see ourselves as an English-speaking country.And we tend to understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopl…
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3 min
Life's Lottery becomes Change the Story
Life’s Lottery is changing.Change the Story is the next chapter - a podcast about what it takes to create real social change.Where Life’s Lottery explored how inequality shapes our…
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26 min
A better start: game-changing preschool reform in NSW & VIC | Backing Kids Ep8
Jeni Whalan hosts a discussion on the recent commitments from both NSW and Victoria to deliver a year of universal play-based learning for children in the year before they start sc…
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27 min
Evidence is not enough: a review | Backing Kids Ep7
In this bonus episode, hosts Jeni Whalan and Glyn Davis examine the insights gained across this season of conversations about putting children at the centre of good public policy.T…
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39 min
Children at the centre: looking overseas | Backing Kids Ep6
‘Never again’ were words that echoed around the world in the wake of the second world war.Organisations were formed with the explicit aim of respecting and promoting international…