After the difficulties we’ve faced this year, the devastating bushfires that ravaged through parts of Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 seem like a lifetime ago. However, for members of bushfire-affected communities, dealing with the aftermath of this natural disaster is still very much a reality. Thankfully, charities and kind members of the community have pulled together donations to help rebuild the livelihood of those affected,
It’s a simple set up, but two chairs in a public place: preferably near a monument or somewhere that gets plenty of foot traffic. Adrià Ballester started the Free Conversations Movement, encouraging members of the public to sit down with him and tell their stories. For some, it’s a way to pass the time; for others, it’s a
Have you ever thought about how difficult it is for lettuce farmers to forecast the rate of the countries lettuce consumption, 3 months in advance, in the midst of a global pandemic? No? Well neither had we, that is until we came across Oddbox. Turns out, it’s hard to estimate how much lettuce country will consume, or how much large supermarket chains
People are sent to prison to reform behaviour and make significant life changes, but it doesn’t always work out that way: in the UK, 75% of ex-inmates re-offend within nine years of release, and 39.3% within the first twelve months. ‘Safe Ground’ aim to shift that trend by running a wide range of rehabilitation services to help prisoners adjust smoothly back to
The initial supermarket panics and the extinction of the toilet roll may feel like a distant memory to some of us now, but when the pandemic first began, panic buying and food shortages affected some members of the community significantly. For health care workers who were working around the clock to keep their country safe,
When the pandemic hit early on this year, there was a fluster of adjustment around having to work from home and adjust to the ‘new normal’, however, small businesses who were unable to run their businesses from a computer experienced a much more hard-hitting reality. For some small businesses the events of 2020 meant shutting shop for a period of time, or even
Not all heroes wear capes, some wear navy blue, carry silver badges and work to keep our streets safe. One of the most important qualities of being a police officer is having the ability to think on your feet: and Sergeant Paul James proved this during a traumatic event that took place on a seemingly normal Wednesday morning when he saved the
He writes under an alias and leaves his work as a gift to the city in his signature type-written signal: so basically Batman, but with poetry. ‘Boy Under the Bridge’, known to his mates as Ricky, is a local writer who shares his beautiful work in a unique way, and all to bring a bit of joy to
Sometimes it’s the little things in life that can cause the largest amount of stress. For Leanne Page, 40, from Morayfield, it was being unable to find her autistic son, three-year-old Tyler’s favourite food in any of her local supermarkets. After contacting them directly and expressing her desperation, the heroes at Woolies hand-delivered ‘Keith’s Foods Mini Dagwood Dogs’ for
If you’re diagnosed with severe mental health problems, odds are you’ll be admitted to a specialised hospital to undergo treatment, but what if there was another option? According to an article by Positive News, UK-based ‘care farms’ are an alternative method of treatment that utilises ‘farming or horticulture activities as a form of therapy’. Participants take part ‘in everything from feeding animals