Amanda Tattersall discovered politics at five years old, watching Hawke’s triumphant election as Prime Minister.

Watching the TV show Rumpole of the Bailey with her grandma got her thinking about the law, and everyone in the family agreed - she was great at arguing.

Amanda’s an absolute force of nature, and it’s clear that was the case from the start.

She was a founder of GetUp, the Sydney Alliance and Labor for Refugees, and she makes the excellent Changemakers podcast, too.

Prolific and undeniably deeply creative in her impact, she’s also become a powerful voice in the still far too taboo space of mental health and the way our brains work.

Despite all that, she’s far from a household name - so, of course, I’ve always wanted to know more.    

Ebony Wightman is a designer, illustrator and artist. In her work, she draws on a life's worth of health challenges and her own experiences as an autistic person, but that's just one aspect of her work.

As one of the founders of We Are Studios, an entirely disability-led art studio in Blacktown, I've seen Ebony's leadership for her community, for the intersectional rights and identities of autistic and neurodiverse communities and people with a disability at large, it's had a real impact across Sydney.

She's brought together programs and work at the Biennale of Sydney, galleries from Blacktown Arts to Hawkesbury to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and along the way become a key advisor on disability and access to governments.

In short, she's doing the work of changing the city's cultural landscape.

So of course, I've always wanted to know more.

Caroline Butler-Bowdon - universally known as CBB - has been a curator and a museum director, a PhD researcher, a government leader with a track record of significant change, and now she’s the State Librarian.

She’s one of those people who seem to attract good people into their orbit, who become a centre of gravity all their own.

I see these people and the buzz of activity that forms around them, and especially with CBB, I’ve always wanted to know more.