ABC Drive Adelaide: Newstart and the Job Providers

by Mark Mordue | Oct 17, 2019

Jules Schiller: Listening to you and some of these callers there’s a sense of dehumanisation about these experiences that is difficult to comprehend if you haven’t been through it. Mark Mordue: “Oh yeah, look, honestly Julian, it’s impossible...

Feed the People

by Mark Mordue | Oct 16, 2019

Today is World Food Day. Its theme is ‘Our actions are our future.’ This relates to a healthy diet and how our dietary choices affect global agricultural activities and the environment, as well as issues like fair trade, as much as the grand goal of...

How to Make Us Happy

by Mark Mordue | Oct 15, 2019

According to the ABC survey, Australia Talks, “spending more time in nature is the single most popular thing Aussies feel would make them happier, across all demographics”. These strong feelings for nature underpin our desire to preserve and benefit from our urban...

The Hungry Country

by Mark Mordue | Oct 13, 2019

The headline in today’s print edition of the Sun-Herald said it all: ‘Hungry Australians turn to charity to feed children’. As the article went on to explain, “One in five Australians say they ran out of food at least once in the past year and...

Newstart Senate Inquiry

by Mark Mordue | Oct 11, 2019

Members of Addison Road Community Organisation’s Inner West ‘Raise the Rate’ Group attended the Newstart Senate Inquiry today in Sydney. There as individuals to tell their own stories – and express their various concerns about the low rate of...