Lou earns an income packing subscriptions via the Women's Workforce project. Courtesy of The Big Issue Australia.

The Big Issue Australia’s Simone Busija tells INSP about the street paper’s Women’s Workforce project. Just as selling street papers is a pathway to a sustainable income, the Women’s Workforce is a means of providing another employment opportunity for women experiencing homelessness, marginalisation and disadvantage who may otherwise not feel comfortable selling magazines on the street. She explains the benefits of the programme.

Q&A: How The Big Issue Australia is empowering women through enterprise

What if homelessness was a rare occurrence rather than a widespread issue? By addressing homelessness via the Advance to Zero approach, communities and agencies around Australia are working together to reach “functional zero” – where housing and services are available for everyone who needs them.

Australia’s 'Advance to Zero' approach to ending homelessness

AOTY Portraits – Australian of the Year Awards 2024 – Salty Dingo 2024

Senior Australian of the Year, Yalmay Yunupinu, spent 40 years teaching children in their own Yolnu language in north-east Arnhem Land. It was a journey of determination, defiance and, occasionally, some Dr Seuss. She told The Big Issue Australia more.

Yalmay Yunupinu: “We must have our land, language and culture”

What happens after homelessness? The Big Issue Australia talks with Danni about her 20-year journey from sleeping rough to being housed. 

Danni's long road from homelessness to a place of her own

The South Korean street soccer team in training. Photo courtesy of 

With the 2023 Homeless World Cup set to take place in Sacramento, California from 8 to 15 July, INSP is celebrating the crossover between street soccer and street papers. Street papers in seven countries – Argentina, Australia, Greece, Japan, Portugal, South Korea and Switzerland – either have street soccer projects connected to them, or work under the same parent organisation. In some cases, a street paper was borne out of a street soccer team, or vice versa. Let’s learn more.

How street papers and street soccer go together at the 2023 Homeless World Cup in Sacramento

' Marcus Vinicius. Credit: Thaís Mallon.

Everyone who is a part of the global street paper network knows what a street paper is – that extends to the staff that put each publication together and those who buy them. But the people who truly know what a street paper is – what it means – are those who sell them. Here, a collection of street paper vendors – from Greece to Australia – tell us, in their own words, what a street paper is, personally to them.

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Q&A: How The Big Issue Australia is empowering women through enterprise

Australia’s 'Advance to Zero' approach to ending homelessness

Yalmay Yunupinu: “We must have our land, language and culture”

Danni's long road from homelessness to a place of her own

How street papers and street soccer go together at the 2023 Homeless World Cup in Sacramento

“It was an opportunity for rediscovery” – what street papers are in the words of those who sell them