Giving money to child beggars in the developing world perpetuates a cruel system.

A wretched-looking child begged me for money. Here’s why I refused

Giving her money will not make one bit of difference to what she eats,where she sleeps or what she wears.

  • Michael Gebicki

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Think the whole world’s going to hell in a handbasket? You’re wrong,and here’s why

More tragedy and turmoil is inevitable in 2025 but even so,for millions and millions of people around the globe,things are getting measurably better.

  • Matt Wade
United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson.

Why CEO’s New York killing was met with such dark glee

A father-of-two is shot in cold blood and yet the alleged shooter becomes a folk hero. Is this the new class warfare and,if it is,is Australia immune?

  • Jenna Price
Protesters in clown outfits demonstrate against the World Economic Forum in Davos,Switzerland.

The world’s first trillionaire could rise within 10 years:Oxfam

Oxfam has for years been trying to highlight the growing disparities between the super-rich and the bulk of the global population. That gap has been “supercharged”.

  • Pan Pylas andMasha Macpherson
Volunteers prepare donations at the food bank in Leidschendam-Voorburg in the Netherlands. Where hundreds of families are reliant on handouts to avoid going hungry.

The Netherlands is one of the richest nations. Why are families lining up for food?

Needy families are queuing for handouts at food banks across the country,underscoring how poverty is taking root even in lower middle-class families.

  • Mike Corder
Happy:The women said they would settle loans and pay overdue bills with the money.

Lucky 11:Friends share a $4 lottery ticket and a fortune in prize

The 11 Indian workers spend their days collecting household rubbish and building public toilets. They could not afford the ticket individually.

  • Suhasini Raj andMike Ives
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Thankyou co-founder Daniel Flynn is set to take the social enterprise global.

‘We could see the end’:How Thankyou Group averted its ‘Death Star’ moment

Melbourne social enterprise Thankyou Group is readying to launch its products to the world – but five years ago,the business was on the brink.

  • Jessica Yun
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Starving the unemployed shames us all – and I’ve had a gutful

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,who’s always telling us how hard he and his pensioner mother did it,has a moral imperative to ease the burden of the jobless.

  • Ross Gittins
Foodbank CEO David McNamara.

‘Then the cops had to shut us down’:the ex-chef stopping Victorians going hungry

The queue for Foodbank Victoria’s pandemic relief hampers was so long last year,police had to shut it down.

  • Sherryn Groch
UNICEF nutrition specialist Joseph Senesie (left) screens a child for malnutrition in Adikeh,in the Wajirat district of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in 2021.

UN warns up to 345 million people ‘knocking on famine’s door’

The world faces an unprecedented global emergency,the United Nations says,with the war in Ukraine pushing millions more people towards starvation.

  • Edith Lederer