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| UpdatedThere is an added incentive for the Sydney Sixers to hit as many boundaries as possible in tonight's Big Bash semi-final, with each six raising money for women in less-developed countries.
Topics: cricket, poverty, access-to-education, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSome of Fiji's urban slums are to feature in a pilot project which will test new techniques for providing clean water and decent sanitation.
Topics: poverty, water-management, pacific, fiji
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A man's hands eating breakfast and cup of tea
Topics: homelessness, poverty, charities, domestic-violence, darwin-0800
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Topics: homelessness, poverty, charities, domestic-violence, health, darwin-0800
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Topics: homelessness, poverty, charities, domestic-violence, darwin-0800
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There are calls to expand free meal services across Darwin, after a charity's ad-hoc breakfast program evolves into a first aid and welfare initiative for the homeless, sick and abused.
Topics: health, charities, poverty, domestic-violence, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, food-and-beverage, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAn ambitious Indian Government plan to rehouse residents of Mumbai's biggest and oldest slum hits a snag, as many residents do not have the documents authorities demand and are fearful of what might happen if they are forthcoming.
Topics: poverty, human-interest, housing, india, asia
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The data used in Oxfam's report has significant limitations, but it certainly appears that it is the best available.
Topics: poverty, economic-trends, united-states
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| UpdatedJust eight men, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, own the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world's population, a new Oxfam report reveals.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, business-economics-and-finance, poverty, community-and-society, australia, switzerland
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| UpdatedCrossbench senator David Leyonhjelm says people who receive pension payments should not be proud because it shows they are poor, a day after the Government tightened the assets test for 300,000 older Australians.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, welfare, community-and-society, older-people, poverty, australia
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| UpdatedHuman Services Minister Alan Tudge criticises an automated telephone campaign attacking changes to the pension as disgraceful and designed to scare older Australians.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, poverty, older-people, australia
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| UpdatedPoverty in Fiji is worse than it was a couple of years ago.
Topics: poverty, world-politics, cyclones, non-governmental-organisations, pacific, fiji
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Topics: vegetables, poverty, cairns-4870
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Topics: vegetables, poverty, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedThe contrast could not be more stark. In developing countries around the world, close to one billion people don't have enough to meet their most basic nutritional needs; while in the first world, more than two billion people suffer the debilitating effects of consuming too much of the wrong types of food. The answer, according to Dr Dyno Keatinge, is to grow and eat more vegetables... which may not be as easy as it sounds when the world's agricultural research and development budget is geared heavily toward cereal crops. But the pendulum is swinging, and not before time, according to Dr Keatinge who has been addressing the world's horticultural scientists in Cairns this week on the Global Horticultural Initiative.
Topics: vegetables, poverty, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedTopics: vegetables, poverty, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedGrowing and eating more vegetables would go a long way to solving the world's critical health challenges, a leading academic says.
Topics: vegetables, poverty, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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Crisis accommodation and Christmas presents helped Shelly Westley and her four kids through a very tough time.
Topics: charities, homelessness, divorce, family, poverty, christmas, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government could save about $1 billion a year by changing three unfair tax breaks for older Australians, a new report says.
Topics: tax, welfare, older-people, business-economics-and-finance, budget, community-and-society, poverty, australia
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| UpdatedChanges to the pension on January 1 will affect the way people plan and behave.
Topics: welfare, older-people, business-economics-and-finance, budget, community-and-society, poverty, australia
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Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, charities, poverty, children, townsville-4810
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Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, charities, poverty, children, townsville-4810
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Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, charities, poverty, children, townsville-4810
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The countdown to Christmas is on for North Queensland charity Food Relief NQ.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, charities, poverty, family-and-children, children, local-government, townsville-4810
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Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, charities, poverty, children, townsville-4810