Socially Democratic
Socially Democratic is your weekly centre-left politics and campaign podcast hosted by Stephen Donnelly, founder of Dunn Street - a campaign agency bringing change by organising from the ground up. Each Friday, Stephen and guests breakdown the issues shaping Australia and the rest of the world and the social democrats leading them. Follow on Instagram at @dunn.street Facebook at @dunnstreetaustralia Twitter at @Dunn_Street_LinkedIn at Dunn Street Website at dunnstreet.com.au
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 314
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Ep.54: Freeing the Flag with Laura Thompson and Peter Francis
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined by Gunditjmara woman and Managing Director of Clothing the Gap, Laura Thompson, and Peter Francis one of Australia’s pre-eminent lawyers on technology …
Ep.53: Democratic Pollster & Strategist - Katie Connolly
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined by Katie Connolly, Democratic pollster and strategist at the Benenson Strategy Group.
As a former lead pollster for Obama in 2012, Hillary in 2016 and a…
Ep.52: Democratic National Zoom-Vention Wrap Up!
Dunn Street Founder Stephen Donnelly was joined by our US Correspondant and former Obama for America organizer - Sam Schneidman.
Sam and Stephen unpack the 4 day Democratic National Convention that la…
Ep.51: Northern Territory Election Preview with Kent Rowe
Dunn Street Founder Stephen Donnelly was joined by Kent Rowe to discuss the upcoming election in the Northern Territory. Kent is the former Secretary and Campaign Director for Territory Labor.
With Te…
Ep.50: How to be an opposition party in a crisis with Labor MP, Richard Marles
Dunn Street Founder Stephen Donnelly was joined by Richard Marles MP - Deputy Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party and shadow spokesperson for Defence.
Richard came on to discuss Australia’…
Ep.49: How to infiltrate a Party you’re already a member of - with Felicity Wade
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined by national Co-Convenor for Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN), Felicity Wade to respond to Labor's federal member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon fol…
Ep.48: How Jacinda Ardern lead NZ through COVID-19 - with Neale Jones
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by former Chief of Staff to New Zealand Labour leaders, Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little - Neale Jones.
Neale and Stephen discuss New Zeala…
Ep.47: Politics USA, July Update!
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by former Obama organiser and regular US politics correspondent - Sam Schneidman for our monthly catch up.
Sam and Stephen broke down the p…
Ep.46: Josh Burns returns to defend himself
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by Labor’s Josh Burns, federal member for MacNamara.
Josh spoke about life as a public official, broke down Kristy McBain’s win for Labor in…
Ep.45: How you make a moment into a movement?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by Shannon Talbert - Deputy Senior Political Director for Color of Change - the largest online racial justice organisation in the United St…
Ep.44: Did Adem Somyurek just open the door to Labor Party reform?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by two former Victorian Labor State Secretaries, David Feeney and Erik Locke.
Following the 60 Minutes/The Age report into systemic branch s…
Ep.43: The Manual for Solving the World's Biggest Problems
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by policy expert and author Andrew Wear.
Andrew has published a new book - "Solved! How other countries have cracked the world's biggest pro…
Ep.42: Are we finally witnessing the demise of Trump?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by former Obama organiser and our regular US politics guest, Sam Schneidman.
Sam and Stephen consider the impact the BLM protests will have …
Ep.41: How To Be A Deadly Allies?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly handed over the podcast microphone to two Aboriginal leaders – First People’s Assembly member Uncle Mookeye and artist and activist Laura Thompson for this week’s…
Ep.40: Student Activism in the Age of Corona
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by Molly Willmott – President of the National Union of students.
Molly is a passionate activist at Melbourne University, and has been involv…
Ep.39: Does our Australian democracy need the media anymore?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by Kate Thwaites MP - Federal Labor Member for Jagajaga
Before being elected to Parliament, Kate was a journalist at the ABC, learning the r…
Ep.38: Loneliness and the Mental Health Toll of COVID-19
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by Dr Michelle Lim - Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist at the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, and Centre for Mental H…
Ep.37: Can Biden beat Trump in November?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line by former Obama alumni organizer - Sam Schneidman.
With the Democratic primary season now concluded and the party unifying around former Vic…
Ep.36: Will Coronavirus be the undoing of Trump?
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly was joined on the line from San Francisco, CA with former White House press secretary for President Obama’s re-election campaign - Ben Labolt.
Ben spoke about the …
Ep.35: The Economic Urgency of Now
Dunn Street founder Stephen Donnelly spoke with Amit Singh - senior advisor at economic consultancy firm Alpha-Beta, and former economic advisor to the Rudd and Gillard governments.
On this week's ep…