Ethica Accessories are a not-for-profit organisation endorsed by Fair traders of Australia (FToA), helping marginalised women in Peru the chance to earn a fair income by making products to sell in Australia and paying a fair wage for those products.
The fair trade products they sell include:
Alpaca products (jumpers, scarves, mittens etc. - perfect for winter!)
Ponchos
Bags and purses
Babies and Children's clothing
Homewares
Head to their website to get a better look at all the ...
Ethica Accessories’ Winter Wine Fest to help women in rural Peru
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Classic Danish fairytale, Wild Swans, comes to life at the Sydney Opera House
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I was a bit of a bookworm as a child. The combination of being a complete social dumb-dumb and my love for reading anything I could get my hands on (the alternative was actually sitting at my little desk and doing my maths homework) meant that I was into reading lots of different genres of stories. The one genre I totally missed out on as I grew older was fairytales.
Maybe it's because these stories were best enjoyed when they were being read to you, with voices and sound effects delivered ...
Cristin Kelly’s experience of being an American in Australia
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Cristin Kelly, as you will see as you read further on in this blog post, is an American in Australia. She's a wordsmith with a Master’s in Dramaturgy & Theatre Criticism, and, as you'll see from her About page on her blog, Between Roots and Wings, she's also got a wonderful sense of humour, quoting that her Mom (I'm obvs using the American spelling) said of her blog, "This is hands down the best blog I’ve ever read about being an American in Sydney, Australia".
This is Cristin, by the ...
Lord of the Fries in Sydney offers Halal and Kosher fries
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... and they're ethical to boot! For anyone who believes carbs are evil, you can go get stuffed. And by stuffed, I mean stuffed full of french fries.
According to their website, Lord of the Fries is "an ethical fast food restaurant serving up the best hot chips and award-winning vegetarian burgers and hot dogs in Australia". I have never in my life heard "ethical" and "fast food" in the same sentence. Is that right? Can that be real?
It's this Halal and Kosher preparation that really ...
