The Big Issue will celebrate 25 years this week, marking the quarter-century milestone with a very special bumper birthday magazine edition out on Friday...
Choose your chocolate wisely this Easter using the Easter scorecard to work out which big brands are free of child labour, farmer impoverishment, and deforestation.
NRMA Insurance and Lifeline have partnered with Australian music icon Julia Stone to highlight the continued need for mental health support for people affected by the devastating fires throughout the 2019-2020 season.
In the lead up to Easter, Be Slavery Free is asking people to offset the human cost of their chocolate by donating the difference between current store prices for chocolate and a living income price for cocoa farmers. Here's why ...
Australians are being urged to thank aged care workers – the forgotten heroes of Australia’s response to the pandemic – in a new campaign launched by Uniting NSW.ACT.
Imagine growing up in a dysfunctional family on Sydney’s outskirts – surrounded by violence, a culture of drinking and drug-taking, all leading to alcohol dependence by age 13.
“Sometimes we just need the time and space – physical and emotional – to be able to pause to experience them … to soak in the details that can go unseen in everyday life.”
The world is moving very quickly around all of us. For Uniting to be able to continue to support the people who rely on us, we need to be able to respond quickly too.
The Covid-19 crisis is affecting charities and the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), which provides services to over 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers a year in its two centres at Parramatta and Westmead, is in urgent need of donations of food, money and volunteers.
Johnston Street Jazz, one of Sydney’s most respected jazz venues, hosted a magnificent celebration of International Women’s Day at its location in the Annandale Arts Centre on March 12.
In late March, in response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Addi Road Community Centre extended its Food Pantry operations with a new Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre.
Australians typically spend more than A$200 million on chocolate over Easter. To ensure children, farmers and the environment don't suffer during its production, Be Slavery Free recommends buying chocolate from companies that are trying to do the right thing.
Do we all remember the pink Batgirl T-shirt that sent online community groups into a tailspin? A decade ago, I would have agreed. It’s a T-shirt, it’s harmless, what’s the big deal?
In mid-February, many Australians were shocked to learn that Hannah Clarke and her three children had been doused in petrol and set on fire in a car by the children’s father, Rowan Baxter.
Eighty people affiliated with the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on February 29, to mark the theme WHAT MATTERS.
What’s clear is that the way we’re approaching male-to-female violence isn’t working. What we’re doing isn’t changing attitudes towards women as quickly as it should be.
