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“At the end of the day, I can buy my stuff. When I’m headed home from the shop sometimes you come out and there’s a homeless person and you can give them something. Without The Big Issue I wouldn’t be able to do that.”

“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.