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Erica Higgins has a knack for picking up the threads of other people's lives through the objects she buys at lawn sales....
Monday 16 March 2009 -
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....Tuesday 19 August 2008 -
It is breakfast time at the Yuendumu child care centre. Fruit and cereal are on the menu and around twenty kids are tucking in....Wednesday 9 April 2008 -
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....Monday 17 March 2008 -
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. ...Thursday 24 January 2008
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![Bob McMullan says more needs to be done in the Pacific in order to meet the UN's goals. [AAP]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200707/r164612_608558.jpg "Labor frontbencher Bob McMullan.")
Concern is mounting that the deadline to implement the United Nations Millennium Development Goals will not be met across the Pacific....Wednesday 1 September 2010 -
![The world is just five years away from a United Nations deadline to halve global poverty. [AFP]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201006/r590354_3773898.jpg "An Indian street child eats street food in Mumbai")
More than 2,000 delegates from 70 countries are in Melbourne for a major United Nations health conference, the first of its kind to be held in the Asia Pacific region....Monday 30 August 2010 -
The decade old goal of halving world poverty is high on the agenda for a major UN health conference in Melbourne....Monday 30 August 2010
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Every day volunteers across Gippsland hit the streets to deliver food and friendship through Meals on Wheels programs....Thursday 26 August 2010 -
VicRelief Foodbank and local community members have launched a Foodbank in Neerim South where people in-need can access food and emotional support....Thursday 19 August 2010
