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Young, cheap and disposable: why Australia’s retail and food industry is failing young people

Too many corporations are getting away with exploting young workers, writes student Megan Sapardanis.

By Megan Sapardanis

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A speculative narrative that flips the history of European colonisation by imagining a reversal: a seafaring people from a southern island travelling north to colonise a new frontier (a year before Cook got to Australia).

Waste colonisation: Australia’s damaging textile exports to Fiji

Concerns mount over the growing influx of cheap clothing donated to Fiji from wealthy countries.