Laura Hartnell’s eyes shift from left to right as she gathers her thoughts. It is as if she is searching inside her mind rather than looking outward. She stops and looks straight at me. “There’s still a real lack of tolerance in...
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Into the dining underworld: the flavours of Facebook Marketplace
It’s a bright Thursday afternoon, and I am standing in an inner-city McDonald’s parking lot in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada. I’m trying to look inconspicuous. I feel the darting eyes of a security...
Heat, holidays and homelessness, the housing crisis of Broome
I drove into Broome just before Easter weekend. The air was still swollen with humidity from the tail end of the wet season. A sign for welcoming tourists along Old Broome Road had been graffitied over with the word HOPE. In the...