Run Against Violence

About Run Against Violence

Listen, learn and talk - that's our route to ending family violence in our communities. Each year, starting 30 August, 1000s of runners and walkers from around the globe come together in teams of up to 20 people to participate in the Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge. The teams race each other online for 19 days, covering a route of 1300km.

Publisher

Run Against Violence

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Aug 2021

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Why Protests Aren't Enough

   Amanda Tattersall has built a career helping ordinary Australians team up and win, as co-founder of GetUp, founder of the Sydney Alliance, host of the ChangeMakers podcast, and author of the new book Conscious Tribes. She has never worked in domestic and family violence. That's exactly why she closes this season. After five episodes with researchers, advocates and community builders, one message kept surfacing: prevention lives or dies with ordinary people. So for the finale, Kirrily sits down with the person who knows how ordinary people get organised, and turns everything this season has called for into something you can actually do. She starts by taking apart the biggest myth in social change: that it takes someone extraordinary. Movements, she argues, don't start with strangers. They start with the people already around you, at work, at school, on your street. And she lands on the idea the whole season has been walking toward: connection comes first, and when more of us take part, everything else follows. It's the final episode of the season, and it ends where we began: with an answer to the question episode one opened with. If we know so much about domestic and family violence, why haven't we ended it? If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732. Amanda Tattersall offers an extensive range of resources at amandatattersall.com (https://amandatattersall.com/) and conscioustribes.net. (https://conscioustribes.net/) For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to ⁠runagainstviolence.com⁠ (https://www.runagainstviolence.com/).If this episode got you thinking, don't keep it to yourself, send it to one person in your community who needs to hear it. And if you've got 30 seconds, leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every share and every review helps this show reach another community. This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. CREDITS Host and producer: Kirrily Dear Executive producer and supervising editor: Pariya Taherzadeh Audio editor: Graham Hunter The Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   The First Year in a New Country

   What happens when someone learns, for the first time in their life, that violence at home is a crime? Aurelia Rahman watches that moment happen in her work, and she describes it as the moment a person discovers they have rights. Aurelia is Head of Community Engagement and Relations at the Community Migrant Resource Centre, which has spent thirty years helping newly arrived migrants and refugees across western Sydney find their feet in a country where everything is unfamiliar: the language, the systems, even the idea that police are there to help. She takes Kirrily inside the first year of a newly arrived family's life and the pressure it puts on a home, then reveals how prevention actually reaches these families. She shares how her teams rebuild trust in police, why the hardest people to reach are the men, and her belief that Australia could become the first country in the world to build communities free of family violence. If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732. For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to runagainstviolence.com. If this episode got you thinking, don't keep it to yourself, send it to one person in your community who needs to hear it. And if you've got 30 seconds, leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every share and every review helps this show reach another community. This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. CREDITS Host and producer: Kirrily Dear Executive producer and supervising editor: Pariya Taherzadeh Audio editor: Graham Hunter The Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Prevention, Powered by Volunteers

   Australia's answer to domestic and family violence has mostly been rescue, pulling people out after the damage is done. Vital work, but it doesn't stop the water rising. This episode is about working upstream. Lou Hayes is the founder of CQ Healthy Families, a volunteer-run charity in Central Queensland doing the quiet work of holding a community's safety net together: a fuel voucher when a family is getting out, emergency accommodation, a security door fixed, and respectful relationships education delivered into ten high schools a year, coordinated entirely by volunteers in their spare time, with no funding behind it. Australia doesn't lack answers, the research, the plans and the royal commission recommendations already exist. What's missing, Lou argues, is a community that owns the problem together. She and Kirrily talk about what that looks like: family violence treated as everyone's business, the hard questions finally directed at the people using violence, and why Lou believes we can end something earlier generations wouldn't even name. If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732. For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to runagainstviolence.com. This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. CREDITS Host and Producer: Kirrily Dear Executive Producer and Supervising Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh Audio Editor: Graham Hunter The Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

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