The Road to Struggle Street

The Road to Struggle Street

By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD Like nearly one million other Australians, I sat transfixed in front of the television on Wednesday 6 May watching the first episode of the three-part SBS documentary ‘Struggle Street’. Leaving aside claims that it was not a fair...
Poverty in Australia? You betcha.

Poverty in Australia? You betcha.

By Lacey Filipich, BEng(Hons), MAICD ‘He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.’  – W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) In 2005, I watched an Australian film called Three Dollars and was...