The wealth of Australia’s 47 billionaires has doubled to $255 billion at a rate of $2376 per second or more than $205 million a day during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99% of humanity fall and more than 160 million people forced into poverty. That equates to more wealth in the hands of 47 people than the […]
In response to the Australian Government’s announcement of $5 million to support the response to Typhoon Rai (known locally as Odette) in the Philippines, Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “Super Typhoon Rai has caused immense devastation and extreme suffering for hundreds of thousands of families, just as they were preparing to celebrate Christmas. […]
In response to yesterday’s mid-year budget update, Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “Oxfam welcomes the Government’s commitments to enhance its partnership with ASEAN and invest in additional infrastructure for the Pacific. “However, the Government has failed to take the opportunity to increase or extend the temporary and targeted aid measures in response to […]
Nearly 90% of the country faces severe water shortages leaving 3.5 million people in extreme hunger Nearly 90% of Somalia is now in a severe drought, following three consecutive failed rain seasons. Some areas are facing their driest season in 40 years and nearly 3.5 million people are already acutely food insecure. Millions more are […]
Oxfam has launched a new generation of Oxfam Unwrapped gift cards in time for Christmas, encouraging Australians to think consciously about their gift giving this year. The new gifts will help transform the lives of people living in poverty by providing life-changing essentials like food and clean water but also helping women entrepreneurs kickstart their businesses […]
A year since first Pfizer vaccine given, Sub-Saharan Africa has only received enough doses to fully vaccinate 1 in 8 people Campaigners from the People’s Vaccine Alliance say the refusal of pharmaceutical companies to openly share their vaccine science and technology, and the lack of action from rich countries to ensure access to vaccines globally […]
Oxfam Australia has welcomed the announcements made today as part of the Labor Party’s climate policy, which would increase Australia’s ambition on emissions reduction in the short-term. However, Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said there is a need for greater ambition to tackle this monumental problem. “This proposal, while an improvement on current ambitions, still does […]
Oxfam Australia has welcomed the passing of significant legislation by the Parliament that will help hold violators of human rights to account. Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said it was pleasing to see that the Magnitsky-style sanctions bill was passed unopposed. “This country by no means has a clean human rights record, itself. However, it is […]
A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doing enough to tackle. The report, The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19, showed the number of calls made by survivors to domestic […]
Major fashion brands in Australia, such as Just Jeans, Lorna Jane, Myer and Peter Alexander, must be open about how and where they manufacture their clothes to help lift the women who make them out of poverty, Oxfam has declared ahead of the Black Friday sales and Christmas. As Australians start their Christmas shopping in […]