Tag: poverty
John Lennon’s Imagine at 50: a deceptively simple ballad, a lasting emblem of hope
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1971 was a tumultuous year. The counter-cultural movement of the 60s was still being felt. Demonstrations were held opposing the Vietnam War...
Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink
Picture: AAP/EPA/Albert Halim
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented a supreme...
Australia’s UN report card: making progress, could do better on inequality and climate
A sign of a drier, hotter planet? Australia is nowhere
near meeting even the modest target of a 26% emissions
reduction by 2030. David...
Older people now less likely to fall into poverty
The incidence of poverty among people over 65
is decreasing in part because of increased labour force participation.
Col Ford and Natasha de Vere/Flickr
The...