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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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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
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All a poor Indian family needs is just one cow to help get their life back on track....

Friday 12 March 2010 -
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 ...
Thursday 11 March 2010 -
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....
Wednesday 10 March 2010 -
A report commissioned by Uniting Care Queensland reveals that disadvantaged areas are still suffering from the effects of poverty....
Wednesday 10 March 2010

