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Fiction Edition: Make Me Smile

Don’t miss your chance to be featured in our 2013 The Big Issue fiction edition – an annual highlight of the publishing year. Some big names in Australian literature have featured ...

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14 May 2013Category: Magazine

Lunch for vendors

Our Adelaide sellers were treated to lunch by celebrity chef Simon Bryant on April 17, giving them a taste of the menu for our upcoming SA fundraiser, The Big Lunch. Bryant, ...

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18 April 2013Category: Magazine

Reader survey

Readers of The Big Issue – we want to hear from you! Join our research study to help us understand what you want from The Big Issue, so that we can ...

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25 March 2013Category: Magazine

Big Art 2013

The Big Issue’s annual art auction, Big Art, will return this year to raise funds for homeless and disadvantaged vendors in Brisbane. Original artworks and special items donated by artists and ...

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18 March 2013Category: Magazine

Ed Sheeran Concert

Warner Music Australia is helping raise funds for The Big Issue as part of Ed Sheeran’s national tour. The award-winning singer is a supporter of The Big Issue in the UK ...

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19 February 2013Category: Magazine

International Vendor Week

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate International Street Paper Vendor Week from February 4-10. Well-known personalities including Andrew Denton, comedian Colin Lane and the lord mayors of Melbourne and Adelaide ...

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13 February 2013Category: Magazine

The Big Issue at Tropfest

Love films and reading? Head to Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival this Sunday (February 17).  Thanks to a partnership with Tropfest, our vendors will sell magazines at festival venues ...

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13 February 2013Category: Magazine

Street Football Festival

The Big Issue Street Football Festival wrapped up on January 28, with a thrilling final of our Community Street Soccer Program National Championships at Darling Harbour. The grand final saw Queensland ...

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28 January 2013Category: Magazine

2013 CEO CookOff

CEOs across Australia will swap their suits for aprons as part of the CEO CookOff on February 11. The event - an initiative of Qantas and OzHarvest – aims to create ...

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22 January 2013Category: Magazine

2013 calendar out now

Looking for Christmas presents? Our 2013 calendar is the warmest and fuzziest gift idea going around - available from vendors for $5. It features cartoons by Andrew Weldon and illustrations by ...

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29 November 2012Category: Magazine

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David

"I grew up around Adelaide. My parents separated when I was one or two, and I li... Find out more

Peter

"I grew up in Kalgoorlie with my sister, but my childhood was not a normal one. ... Find out more

Pam

"I was born in Sri Lanka but I grew up in Canberra. Mum and Dad just wanted a ch... Find out more

Bill

From Ed#348, February 2010 As one of The Big Issue’s longest-serving v... Find out more

Janine

"I’m a happy-go-lucky person. Happy to be settled and happy to have a job.... Find out more

Stephen

"I grew up in Queensland. My mum and dad divorced when I was young and they move... Find out more

Kerry-Anne

"I’d lived here in Adelaide all my life, till I went to Melbourne in 2009 ... Find out more

Peter

"I started with The Big Issue just over a year ago. My mate Dougie and his wife ... Find out more

Eileen

Eileen is no different from many other 31-year-old women: she loves shopping for clot... Find out more

James

"With the Christmas issue (Ed#421), I celebrated my 300th Big Issue edition as a... Find out more

Arthur

"I’ve been blind since the age of 16 – I knew it would happen, as it... Find out more

Johnnie

Readers might recognise Melbourne vendor Johnnie from The Big Issue’s 2010 nati... Find out more

Gary

"When the doctors told my mum her baby probably wouldn’t walk or talk, she... Find out more

Cindy

"I was born in Tassie, but my parents split up and Mum raised me and my two brot... Find out more

Christine

It’s been more than five years since I was introduced to the The Big Issue by a... Find out more

Steve

I am from down south at Bunbury originally, but after Mum and Dad separated I went wi... Find out more

Kelvin

I was born in Geelong, Victoria, and spent most of my life there. I was born prematur... Find out more

Ernie

Since I had the car accident, I don’t remember having other jobs or much about ... Find out more

Jason

Jason sells The Big Issue on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets, Melbourne. ... Find out more

Michael

When Michael was 21 he fled the angry shouts of his parents’ crumbling marriage... Find out more

Kayleen

I was born in Brisbane Hospital and had a happy childhood in northern Queensland, but... Find out more

Celeste

"It’s funny, when I was school I was a very high achiever: A+, did musical... Find out more

Laurence

Laurence sells The Big Issue at the Canberra Times Fountain, Civic, and in Dickson. ... Find out more
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