Latest Poverty stories on ABC Alice Springs

 
  • Erica's favourite sentimental lawn sale memento
    Erica Higgins has a knack for picking up the threads of other people's lives through the objects she buys at lawn sales....Photo iconAudio icon
    Monday 16 March 2009
  • Locals gather to watch the summer football competition each afternoon in Yuendumu.
    I'm sitting on the edge of a dusty red oval talking with Brett Badger, a counsellor with the Mt Theo Substance Misuse Program. Brett explains how the return of the summer football competition has turned the community around....Photo iconAudio icon
    Tuesday 19 August 2008
  • Child care worker Sabrina Lewis with her youngest daughter, Ginessa Wilson.
    It is breakfast time at the Yuendumu child care centre. Fruit and cereal are on the menu and around twenty kids are tucking in....Photo iconAudio icon
    Wednesday 9 April 2008
  • Child care worker, Sam Watson.
    Sam grew up in Adelaide yet lives in one of the most remote areas in the country. Her home is Yuendumu, three hundred kilometres north west of Alice Springs on the edge of the Tanami Desert, only accessible by four wheel drive....Photo icon
    Monday 17 March 2008
  • Robert Naylon and Christina Jack patrol the river each morning.
    For many the sandy, tree lined trail is a shelter from the violence of the Town Camps. For others, it's a stop over place, a kind of bush hotel, for those who have come to town from remote communities seeking the services and facilities of Alice Springs. ...Photo icon
    Thursday 24 January 2008

Latest Poverty stories on ABC Online

 
  • The borderlands between Mexico and the United States are a lawless wasteland where massacres, drug busts and battles between the military and drug-traffickers happen regularly. Juarez has one of the highest murder rates in the world, including more than 100 young women whose random murders ...
    Friday 12 March 2010
  • Indian nun, Sister Stella Ettadu is pictured with Gippsland residents Bill and Glenys Darmody
    All a poor Indian family needs is just one cow to help get their life back on track....Photo iconAudio icon
    Friday 12 March 2010
  • Some children arrived in the United States believing they were only visiting.
    A 7 year old Ethiopian girl is portrayed as destitute and in grave danger. She is in fact 13 and has been well cared for much to the surprise of her adopting family. Then there are the children told they're just visiting a foreign land who are in fact on a one way ticket. This is the powerful next ...Photo iconVideo icon
    Thursday 11 March 2010
  • Concerns held for Haiti's homeless
    The Port-Au-Prince aid mission is coming to an end for many earthquake relief workers, leaving a question mark over what will become of those still in need....Photo iconVideo icon
    Wednesday 10 March 2010
  • A report commissioned by Uniting Care Queensland reveals that disadvantaged areas are still suffering from the effects of poverty.
    A report commissioned by Uniting Care Queensland reveals that disadvantaged areas are still suffering from the effects of poverty....Photo iconVideo icon