Testing Times

Posted Jan 15th, 2010 • Category: Big Issue Magazine, Current Issue • By

4275569432_4e041fff8d_mThe Big Issue Edition 346

Ricky Ponting’s Test team is being upstaged this summer by the brash new form of cricket. Will the traditional game survive? Nicholas Yallop reports.

Also in this issue:

In ‘Hunger to Learn’, Kenyan children get an appetite for school with help from Australian Red Cross; it’s a ‘A Yo Ho Ho Show’ when Rogue performers – Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins and Peter Garrett – invade Sydney Harbour; Precious director Lee Daniels talks about tackling tough stories on screen in ‘The Painful Truth’; and in ‘Roving Eye’ photographer Dave Tacon takes one last look at an isolated village in Papua New Guinea, before the inroads of change.

Our ‘Vendor Profile’ is Claudette from Adelaide. And we have ‘Streetsheet’ contributions from: Denise in Adelaide, Blake in Canberra, Aaron in Melbourne, Jason in Adelaide and Sarah in Perth.

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