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At our heart, Australia reMADE (The reMAKERS Ltd) is both an idea: for the society we want to be (see the Vision), and a community of practice for fellow changemakers: people who are tired of just fighting the old, and ready to build the new.

We’re an independent leadership network, content and education charity organisation – championing a vision of what’s possible, and the systems-change needed to create it.

Read more about our staff, founders and associates.

We’re all living in a time of disruption, challenge and opportunity. So our purpose here is simple: to help build more of the world we want, rather than the one we fear.

We are non-partisan, vision-and-values-based, 100% politically independent and not-for-profit – so we’re free to barrack for ideas, rather than picking sides.

Content, research, gatherings, advising and leading specific projects – we cover a lot of ground. To get a taste, we suggest you:

Start here, with our top recommended reads for people who are new to us.

Check out the Vision of an Australia reMADE and endorse it.

Check out our research and work the “3Cs” of public good.

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On 24 April, 2015, under an Abbott Government in a country that seemed to be heading backwards on many fronts, a collection of senior civil society leaders from diverse sectors came together to ask, ‘What is our “yes?”’ In other words, what is our shared analysis of the country we dream of, and the change needed to create it? This led to a series of gatherings, known for a time as A24.

Naomi Klein was present at one of them – on Wednesday, 9 November 2016 – the very day Donald Trump was declared winner of the US presidential election. She writes about the experience in the opening of her book, No is Not Enough:

“At the time, I was in a meeting with around fifteen heads of various Australian environmental, labor, and social justice organizations. We were having a discussion that circled around a key insight. Up to now, the fights against global warming, racism, inequality, violations of Indigenous, migrant and women’s rights, as well as many other progressive battles, have often been broken up into their own boxes or siloes. But we had been asking, as so many movements are today: how do they intersect? How can they be tackled in tandem, at the same time? What values would govern such a movement? And how could it translate into political power?” (page 15)

Inspired in part by Naomi’s organisation and The Leap Manifesto in Canada, these leaders raised money to embark on a national research project, to listen and define that collective ‘yes’ in the language of everyday people. This became the vision & nine pillars, and unravelling and remaking the systems for this vision to be realised is now the ongoing work for an Australia reMADE.

Recognition and gratitude to The Australian Conservation Foundation, Action Aid, Community and Public Sector Union, GetUp, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, the National Union of Workers and Oxfam for financially supporting the very early days of this project.

You can read more about our individual founders here.

Australia reMADE is funded through a mix of philanthropy, fee-for-service work, public donations as well as annual contributions from founding member organisations, including The Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace Australia Pacific.

We are 100% politically independent and do not accept donations from political parties.

Yes. If you would like to contribute financially to support our work, you can make a secure one-off or ongoing tax-deductible donation here. If you would like to donate on behalf of an organisation, please get in touch.

As a small team with big ambition, we can’t say yes to everything. But we are open to strategic and mutually-beneficial opportunities to collaborate, present, participate in gatherings, etc. Please get in touch to introduce yourself and discuss your idea more.

Firstly, thank you. We love hearing from people who find our work useful.

We absolutely encourage you to use, integrate and adapt the Australia reMADE vision and other resources under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence for non commercial purposes, with appropriate attribution. In other words, feel free to take the vision, pilfer, use and make it your own!

If you’re planning to use or reference our work in a substantial way, we appreciate a friendly head’s up. This helps us better understand our impact and we may be able to help spread the word and support your efforts.

If you’re planning to run for office or use our materials in a political campaign, please make no claims to be ‘endorsed’ by us. It’s important that we are politically independent and don’t endorse candidates or parties.

For any further questions about use or attribution, please contact us.

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?’ Here are a few pieces of writing you might find helpful if you want to dive further into the value of vision:

Mapping the Future we can Embrace

Vision: why bother?

Forget GDP, we need a bold new ‘why’ fit for the times we live in