World poverty
Opinion
Crime
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?
- by Jenna Price
Latest
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”.
- by Pan Pylas and Masha Macpherson
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.
- by Mike Corder
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
‘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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