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“I like selling because it’s a bit of extra money in the pocket and I like getting out of the house. When we were in lockdown I was bored out of my brains!”

“I tend to recognise some faces, they don’t always buy but they smile at me if I’ve served them before. Lots of people walk past me with their dogs, sometimes a dog will try to jump up on me!”

“I enjoy working, I like meeting people. My customers are good people, they always come to me to buy mags. Sometimes they offer me a coffee.”

“I have a lot of regular customers. They ask me when the new magazine comes out and they ask me when the calendars come out… I know if they’ve missed out on the magazine in the first week I always save extra in my bag for them.”

The Big Issue magazine is now read by 270,000 Australians every fortnight, according to the latest Roy Morgan Australian Magazine Readership research.

Registrations are now open for The Big Issue’s Social Impact Project, a new higher education experience for universities and students interested in social enterprise. The Social Impact Project is an immersive learning experience where students are challenged to develop a concept and plan for a project or business that will create positive social or environmental…