Change Agents

An artist and the 2021 Australian of the Year are inspiring change through their shared platforms of advocacy and art.

Modi Depp is a male belly dancer who has resisted gender stereotypes to become an expert in an ancient dance form.

Olivia Williams - a young Koori woman - founded the platform Blak Business to facilitate broader learning and discussion about issues impacting First Nations peoples.

Aram Shaabo is rebuilding his career and helping his community in Australia after fleeing persecution in his native Iraq.

Juanita and Eleni experienced the stigma of having a criminal record - but turned their lives around by empowering other women who have also left the prison system.

Kate Pinnock helps prison inmates produce a radio program which provides a link for those separated by prison and aims to raise public awareness.

Jas Kaur is a fitness coach whose Facebook Group helps South Asian women uplift each other and break cultural taboos.

Professor Svetha Venkatesh is a leading Australian computer scientist, who has carried out pioneering research in the field of artificial intelligence. It has seen her elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Meet Nido from Bendigo who is tackling discrimination and the barriers facing refugees in regional areas.

Bashar Hanna left Iraq for Australia after the 2003 war and later set up a choir for others who have also left their homelands.

SBS launches a new podcast series featuring individuals who are changing the society in which we all live.