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It’s that time of the year! The Big Issue 2025 Calendar is now on sale.

The Big Issue’s milestone 20th Fiction Edition is on sale now from vendors and online. The Fiction Edition – which boasts 16 more pages than usual editions – contains new short fiction from 13 writers, who were selected from an incredible entry pool of 808 submissions. Submissions were anonymously judged by Melissa Fulton, Daniel James…

The Big Issue has released new organisational insights through the first ever Social Impact report!

Much-loved social enterprise The Big Issue has released their 2024 Calendar, on sale now from your local vendor!

15-27 October 2023 is Anti-Poverty Week, created to inform and support the Australian community to have an increased understanding of poverty and to take action collectively to end it. 1 in 8 Australians or 3.319 million live in poverty, and more than 122,000 Australians are experiencing homelessness. For 27 years The Big Issue has created…

This week (7-13 August 2023) is Homelessness Week, created to raise awareness for those who experience homelessness every night. This year’s theme is ‘It’s time to end homelessness’. There’s never been a more important time to end homelessness, with recent Census figures showing an increase to more than 122,000 people in Australia experiencing homelessness. The…