Australia Through Nepali Eyes
For three years my wife and I lived in Nepal. Those years included some months studying language and culture, a half year in a rural mission hospital and two years in a large university government teaching…
Theme: Poverty & development
Recent articles
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…
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…
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Can we really make poverty history?
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Who are the poor and what do they really want?
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