Michèle A’Court, comedian from New Zeland, writes about her trip to Papua New Guinea and Fairtrade.
Photo: www.fairtrade.com.au
For many years, I’ve been an ideological supporter of the Fairtrade concept – it has always made tremendous sense to me that the person who creates the work should get a fair share of the money that is made from it so they can make a decent living.
It’s something I care about probably because of my own experience as a worker. As a comedian, I try to arrange things so that middle-men (producers, promoters, advertisers, venue owners) don’t take such a huge share of a show’s ticket price that I only end up with a tiny part of what an audience member was prepared to pay to see my work.
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