Can regions move beyond simply responding to the energy transition and start shaping it? While much of the national conversation focuses on the politics of renewable energy, regional communities are…
Our instinct is often to explain more, provide more information or try harder to persuade. But when emotions are running high, facts alone rarely change minds. People don't respond to technical risk…
Community engagement is incredibly rewarding work, but anyone who's done it knows it can also be emotionally demanding. You're often working with people who are worried, frustrated or uncertain about…
When major projects are proposed, a lot of attention is given to managing risk and avoiding harm, and while those things matter, they're only part of the picture. What if we asked a different…
At its heart, this conversation explores a simple but important idea: Every region has the right to shape its own pathway through the energy transition. In the Central-West Orana region of New South…
We often assume that if people just had more information, they’d understand, but in contested environments, communication is rarely just about the facts. Across the energy transition, many…
The energy transition is more than policy, it’s people, place and the future of regional Australia. At its core, this episode is about connectio: between policy and place, between national ambition…
Are we hearing from the community, or just the people most motivated to speak? In this episode of emPOWER, Wendy Agar is joined by Dr Kieren Moffat (CEO and Co-founder of Voconiq) to unpack a question…
What happens when a region doesn’t speak with one voice, but still has to make decisions about its future? We often talk about “the regions” as if they’re one place - one voice - but on the ground,…
In this episode of emPOWER, Wendy Agar sits down with Karen Cain—a Gippsland farmer, former CEO of the Latrobe Valley Authority, and now an international researcher and advisor on the energy…
