Poor Erin, stuck with a 1GB ipod. Poor Red, he only has a PlayStation 2. A new video examines some of the real challenges middle class Aussie kids face. Congratulations to World Vision for their great work on this video. It’s worth the full five minutes.

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My cousin Mark sent me the link to Kiva.org and has decided that if he could work for any organisation in the world, it would be them, or google.org. Here’s Kiva’s positive self-talk… “Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, [...]

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This week is Anti-Poverty week… Anti-Poverty Week was established several years ago in Australia as an expansion of the UN’s annual International Anti-Poverty Day on October 17. The main aims of Anti-Poverty Week are to strengthen public understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and hardship around the world and in Australia and encourage [...]

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SUSAN GEORGE is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice. Susan spoke at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on 26 May, 2005. These notes provide a general overview of Susan’s perspective on the “worldwide citizen’s movement” (sometimes [...]

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As Bob drives over a railway crossing, his BMW stalls and he can’t start it up again. He gets out of his car to work out what can be done. A curious child comes along to see what’s going on. Along comes a driverless, out-of-control train, speeding toward the crossing. Bob has time to push [...]

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