{"id":17446,"date":"2021-04-27T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T00:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/?post_type=change&#038;p=17446"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:26:45","slug":"change79-buy-big-issue","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change79-buy-big-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy The Big&nbsp;Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Help people help themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not often that buying something for ourselves helps someone else. But that\u2019s the gist of The Big Issue. It\u2019s the magazine sold on the streets by people experiencing homelessness, marginalisation and disadvantage, providing work, confidence and a sense of purpose to those who need it. And, most importantly, an income. Since starting in 1996, The Big Issue has put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebigissue.org.au\/the-big-issue-magazine\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$32 million dollars <\/a>into the pockets of Australians experiencing disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it works. Vendors buy copies of the magazine for $4.50. Then they sell them for $9, keeping the difference. Since The Big Issue\u2019s very first issue, more than 13 million magazines have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Buying The Big Issue is more than a moment of do-gooding. Each issue contains a magazine\u2019s-worth of topical, irreverent stories, commentary and in-depth investigations, delivered right into your hands or iPad, or onto your doorstep, every fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>Origin is proud to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originfoundation.org.au\/stories\/tackling-the-big-issues-together.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long-standing partnership with The Big Issue<\/a> \u2013 and now you can create change too. Help secure employment for vulnerable women by taking out a fortnightly subscription for your home or business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help secure employment for vulnerable women by taking out a fortnightly subscription for your home or&nbsp;business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17468,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[43,44],"class_list":["post-17446","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-origin-energy-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}