The world’s first trillionaire could rise within 10 years:Oxfam

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”.

  • byPan Pylas andMasha Macpherson

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The Netherlands is one of the richest nations. Why are families lining up for food?

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.

  • byMike Corder
Lucky 11:Friends share a $4 lottery ticket and a fortune in prize

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.

  • bySuhasini Raj andMike Ives
‘We could see the end’:How Thankyou Group averted its ‘Death Star’ moment

‘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.

  • byJessica Yun
Starving the unemployed shames us all – and I’ve had a gutful
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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.

  • byRoss Gittins
‘Then the cops had to shut us down’:the ex-chef stopping Victorians going hungry

‘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.

  • bySherryn Groch
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UN warns up to 345 million people ‘knocking on famine’s door’

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.

  • byEdith Lederer
Julia Gillard committed a terrible wrong. It’s time for Albanese to right it
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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.

  • byChris Wallace
Child poverty:A problem Labor can and must solve
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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.

  • bySean Kelly
‘We can barely think of buying food’:Life in Sri Lanka

‘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.

  • byChris Barrett
‘Oh,my god! What’s that?’:My life as a midwife in South Sudan
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‘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.

  • byAnna Kent