World poverty
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.
- by Suhasini Raj and Mike Ives
Latest
‘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.
- by Jessica Yun
Opinion
JobSeeker
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.
- by Ross Gittins
‘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.
- by Sherryn Groch
Analysis
United Nations
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.
- by Edith Lederer
Opinion
Welfare
Julia Gillard committed a terrible wrong. It’s time for Albanese to right it
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.
- by Chris Wallace
Opinion
Welfare
Child poverty: A problem Labor can and must solve
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.
- by Sean Kelly
‘We can barely think of buying food’: Life in Sri Lanka
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.
- by Chris Barrett
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Good Weekend
‘Oh, my god! What’s that?’: My life as a midwife in South Sudan
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.
- by Anna Kent
Zimbabweans boil used nappies to get high
Poverty-stricken drug users in the African country have turned to a cheaper narcotic.
- by Peta Thornycroft and Will Brown
Fears for children caught on the front line of Ukraine conflict
More than half of the children living along and near the “contact line” - where fighting is most intense – are living in poverty.
- by Anthony Galloway