Kids Cover
We have a winner! This year’s Kids Cover Competition received a record number of entries, and our absolute fave was designed by 12-year-old Frankie Kelly from Newcastle: a sunny, funny vision of Santa’s summer holidays. “I thought it would be really cool to combine the Australian lifestyle with Christmas, to create a scene on the beach,” she says of her stunning artwork. “I’m really into pop art and really bright and colourful pieces, and I wanted to use a few different mediums.”
Flip through our latest edition to see more artistic masterpieces from all over the country, featuring reindeers, presents and a Grinch or two. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…
More highlights in this edition:
- Green thumbs pack a punch: we speak to three Aussie gardeners on the mental, social and ecological benefits of growing a better world.
- Authors Kate Mildenhall, Winnie Dunn, Graeme Simsion and Anita Heiss gift us with their Christmas reflections on family and food, loss and longing.
- Actor Connie Nielsen tells us about returning to a world of ancient Roman spectacle for Gladiator II.
- In Tastes Like Home, Nadine Ingram bakes memories of her grandparents’ orchard into her custardy, welcoming Agrarian Apricot Tart.
- And in Ozzities, we go Round the Twist: shouting out the most bizarre (yet loveable) kids show to ever grace our screens.
- PLUS: The Big Issue’s 2025 Calendar is out now! It showcases vendors and their hobbies in a series of fantastic photos, and some hilarious cartoons by our very own Andrew Weldon. Just $20 – vendors directly earn $12 for every calendar sold.
Let’s Go
Surfing
It's fun, it's free and it gets you off your phone.
This edition wave-rider Jock Serong
makes the case for surfing.
Kermit’s Great
Leap Forward
In this edition, Small Screens Editor
Aimee Knight speaks to Kermit about
his secrets for staying young.
Welcome Back!
“I have been thinking about you all. I can’t wait to be back at work!” says Claudett, who sells The Big Issue in Adelaide.