ABC Radio National’s Life Matters -

broadcasting from the 2nd Australian Regional Economies Conference

So, what do we make of all this? What’s working well, and what needs to change? Is change itself changing? And what do we do now? What’s next!

To discuss our shape-shifting communities, Julie McCrossin will facilitate a panel discussion and public forum on the final day of the conference that will bring together all the good stories, hard questions, provocative examples and even robust disagreements that have been bubbling along for a few days.

Julie will put you on the spot. Delegates, community members, decision makers, those who simply feel ‘decided-upon’ . . . Is change working? What needs to change about change? Who’s driving it? Who’s listening? What do you think? Your plan for the future, on Life Matters, ABC Radio National.

About Life Matters

Life Matters is a unique daily radio program about social change and day-to-day life, presented by the dynamic and ever-optimistic Julie McCrossin.

LM is about how the big picture impacts on the ordinary person. It deals with the ‘social’ in ‘social policy’, the human parts of ‘human interest’, and regularly grapples with issues in education, health, family relationships and social change. Specialists strut their stuff, but are both challenged and forced to explain, as their work is drawn back to the real people on whom their work impacts.

Presenter Julie McCrossin talks for a living. She’s both a storyteller and professional listener, a person who draws out personal experience and issues with considerable warmth and energy. Julie has a long career in the media and in social policy areas, has worked on TV and as a bus driver, as facilitator for a wide range of events and as a clown, in children’s theatre and as a lay member of the NSW Medical Board.