Amanda Tattersall - Conscious Tribes

Name: Amanda Tattersall - Conscious Tribes
Start: 2026-08-12T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-08-12T18:00:00+10:00
Location: Upstairs at Gleebooks

About

6pm for 6.30pm Wed 12 August

Amanda Tattersall in conversation with Craig Reucassel

Many of us feel that meaningful change is beyond our reach, whether due to global crises like war and climate change or pressures closer to home.

Conscious Tribes describes a way forward. Drawing on stories from Sydney to Hong Kong, and from schoolrooms to boardrooms, Amanda Tattersall reveals how we build meaningful, lasting change, and how we can shape it with others.

By mapping the paradoxes of public life – big and small, ‘power over’ and ‘power with’, curiosity and judgement – we gain a clearer grasp on the defining challenges of our time. Making a difference means navigating them with others in ‘conscious tribes’: groups that change the world around us and ourselves.

Conscious Tribes draws on decades of work building organisations, movements and campaigns, grounded in the stories of activists and unlikely agitators. It is an antidote to dark times by insisting we are more powerful than we think, asking us to reimagine the difference we can all make.

Amanda Tattersall is the co-founder of GetUp, the million-member Australian digital campaign organisation, and the founder of the Sydney Alliance, the country’s largest and most diverse community coalition. She is an Associate Professor in urban geography at the University of Sydney, and she has spent her career making and researching the art of making a difference in Australia and across the world. She has been active on issues as diverse as climate change, workplace rights, peace, mental health, housing and education. Her previous books include Power in Coalition (2010) and People Power in Cities (2026). She is the host of the ChangeMakers Podcast, which is now in its tenth season and has had over 2 million downloads. For more: https://amandatattersall.com/.

Craig Reucassel is an Australian writer, comedian and broadcaster who is best known for his work with The Chaser, for going through your bins on The War on Waste, and for presenting Breakfast on ABC Radio Sydney.