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Melbourne is a city known for its love of vintage and alternative fashion.  Linked to this, is a love of the op shop, or thrift shop.  The hundreds of op stores throughout the city range from small neighbourhood shops to giant warehouse superstores.

We all know that to get more, we need to spend more, and this is usually the way government expenditure works. But in Fiji it doesn’t really matter how much or how little the government spends, because whatever the amount might be, it doesn’t have a huge impact those communities […]

Fiji has a very high poverty rate. In 2010 45% of Fijians lived under the poverty line and this figure has certainly risen since then due to the economic crisis and chronic lack of employment. With only one year left to the much anticipated 2014 Fijian elections, the big question […]

Fiji is a developing island nation and the majority of the population live in rural areas of the two main islands. According to a Fiji Bureau of Statistics report in 2009, 31% of the population lived in poverty, most of whom reside in rural Fiji. The situation is worse, with the current recession […]