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”.
Needy families are queuing for handouts at food banks across the country,underscoring how poverty is taking root even in lower middle-class families.
The 11 Indian workers spend their days collecting household rubbish and building public toilets. They could not afford the ticket individually.
Melbourne social enterprise Thankyou Group is readying to launch its products to the world – but five years ago,the business was on the brink.
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.
The queue for Foodbank Victoria’s pandemic relief hampers was so long last year,police had to shut it down.
The world faces an unprecedented global emergency,the United Nations says,with the war in Ukraine pushing millions more people towards starvation.
On the day former prime minister Julia Gillard delivered her misogyny speech,the Senate passed a bill that consigned single-parent families to greater struggle and further entrenched intergenerational poverty.
The Albanese government could act today to change their lives,and has so far chosen not to. Nor do we have much indication yet that it will do so any time soon.
A catastrophic mix of populist tax cuts,an ill-planned push for organic farming and political hubris sowed the seeds of the tragedy now unfolding in Sri Lanka.
Anna Kent swapped a comfortable life in England to work in Central Africa. Here,she tells of the day a teenager’s dramatic labour changed her life.