As such, those who know his mother’s heritage found it hard to believe she grew up in the slums. They believed she would still have led a comfortable life in Australia. In an interview with Lite ...

As Australia’s largest university ... We’re introducing a new approach to slum revitalization using water-sensitive design called RISE, Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments.

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Olympian Emma McKeon, a UNICEF Australia ambassador, visits one of the slum areas in Bangladesh at Korial, in the capital Dhaka. Picture: Jason Edwards Opposite is a family of seven. Here ...