You can, we can, ICAN – meet the folks behind the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. What started in a Melbourne coffee shop has grown into a Nobel Peace Prize-winning collective determined to achieve global disarmament.
“We have to remember that these weapons are new,” founding ICAN member Dave Sweeney tells us. “They are only 80 years old, and 80 years is enough. We can’t get used to this. We, as a species, created this existential threat and we can wind it back.”
More highlights in this edition:
“It’s one thing to house people, and another to support them to be able to reintegrate.” Hear from Rocky, a StreetCare advocate and Big Issue Classroom speaker, who shares her story of homelessness and the daily challenges that come with it.
Perth’s Tim Minchin wasn’t too cool at school, but he sure did learn how to play a tune. In his Letter to My Younger Self, he tells us that making people laugh was what he was born to do.
The Himalayan foothills are home to the largest honeybees in the world; with ladders made of bamboo, the Gurung people scale the colossal cliff faces to harvest the sweet stuff. In The Big Picture, photographer Andrew Newey takes us into the hive.
It’s Huey’s Kitchen, we’re just eating in it! In Tastes Like Home, Iain “Huey” Hewitson gives us a taste of his upbringing in New Zealand with his Braised Lamb Shanks.
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The Big Issue 30th Anniversary Edition 763 is choc full of
very interesting and informative articles.
I particularly liked vendor Marion's pictorial of Melbourne's
Queen Victoria Market and the CBD.
The next time you see a vendor do them
and yourself a favour. Buy a Big Issue magazine.
I particularly wanted to read the Rose Byrne piece who was featured on the front cover of The Big Issue, Edition 758.
But, more importantly I enjoyed many of the other features in this magazine, in particular, the archive piece on Heath Ledger, the inspiring piece from Deborah Lawrie with her letter to her younger self and Shaun Micallef personal discussion on AI. Thank you for serving up such an interesting magazine.
I must admit I purchased this edition as my son had an article printed in it. When I was looking for this edition I spoke to one of the lovely sellers in the city and he was so helpful looking to see if the article was in that edition.
Since then I have found out a lot more about the Big Issue and how they help disadvantaged Australians to become more independent and I think they are awesome.
Overall the magazine is very professionally set out and of course has some great articles. Love reading about the sellers
I love The Big Issue calendars and have been buying the every year I can since they started. I missed out locally this time so was very happy to be able to buy it online, thereby avoiding a whole year of FOMO
CALENDAR: I love the alternating pages, where month A is a cartoon by Andrew Weldon, and month B is a profile of a Big Issue seller.
FICTION EDITION: 12 short stories, including one by Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
I've been buying the Big Issue for many years (though not 30). I live in Wollongong, I don't remember seeing a vendor here, but I have often bought a copy when I have to go to Sydney for work. I always enjoy reading it on the train on my way home, as well as feeling good that I have done something to help somebody to help themselves. Love your work, all the best for the next 30 years!
TBH…
As a ‘there at the start’ contributor, think it would’ve been good to show some of the ‘early’ editions and people who helped make TBI what it has become…
Behind the ‘sellers’ is a lot of pre-production content…