Slavery in our Food
Modern slavery is a huge problem in our world today, affecting around 50 million people at any one time—41,000 of them in Australia. Back in 2006 I’d been largely bedbound with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome…
Theme: Poverty & development
Recent articles
Beauty and Uncertainty in Timor Lorosa’e
I recently spent a year living and working in Timor-Leste (known locally as Timor Lorosa’e and formally as East Timor), just an 85-minute flight from Darwin. I had been wanting to live and work in a developing…
Making a Forest
Tony Rinaudo is an Aussie missionary, also known as 'the forest maker,' who is a Right Livelihood Award Laureate and Member of the Order of Australia. As a young man growing up in Victoria’s Ovens Valley,…
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