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Oxfam has launched its 2022 Unwrapped gift cards, inspiring Australians to give socially conscious gifts this Christmas.   Oxfam Unwrapped cards help transform the lives of people living in poverty by providing food, education, clean water, and other life-saving essentials.  The Straight Talk card, for example, can help empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to […]

Oxfam is supporting the Humanitarian Knowledge Hub (JMK) in responding to the earthquake which hit Cianjur and Sukabumi in Indonesia last week. The partners have started distributing basic sanitation kits to displaced people. The earthquake has killed at least 323 people, damaged more than 62,628 buildings in Cianjur and around 443 others in Sukabumi and […]

Oxfam is calling out fashion brands Zara and Jeans West for failing to commit to transparency by sharing factory locations and benchmarking garment workers’ wages, as retailers prepare for Black Friday sales and the pre-Christmas rush. The two brands have been declared the ‘naughtiest’ on the anti-poverty organisation’s annual Naughty or Nice List, which congratulates […]

Responding to the final communiqué of the COP27 climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said:  “The establishment of a loss and damage fund is a monumental achievement for vulnerable developing countries and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. They have been calling for funding to cope with […]

Australian scientific expertise and diplomacy should be at the centre of a new push to climate and conflict-proof the global food system at the G20 summit. A discussion paper released today marks the start of the summit and highlights a path to ending devastating widespread hunger. It is being released by Help Fight Famine – a coalition […]

G20 countries are receiving $136 million every day in debt repayments from the world’s poorest countries at a time when up to 828 million people are facing hunger. The “cost of living” crisis is more accurately a “cost of profit” crisis – of rising billionaire wealth and corporate mega-profits – that is driving up poverty, […]

The investments of just 125 billionaires emit 393 million tonnes of CO2e each year –– at an individual annual average that is a million times higher than 90% of humanity. Oxfam today published the report, Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the World’s richest people, based on a detailed analysis of the investments of 125 […]

Oxfam Australia has condemned a renewed attempt by the NSW government to target, harass and prosecute Aboriginal cultural fishers who are already massively over-represented in fines and prosecutions. Ahead of the release of an inquiry report into cultural fishing on Monday, the government is proposing an amendment for debate next week that would expand search […]

Commenting on the federal budget, Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “In a world wracked by increasing inequality exacerbated by conflict, COVID-19 and climate change, this budget is a promising first step towards re-engaging with our global community. “After years of cuts and neglect, we are heartened to see this government revive our ailing […]

Lower income countries paying the highest price as emissions and fossil fuel profits rocket An average of 189 million people per year have been affected by extreme weather-related events in developing countries since 1991 – the year that a mechanism was first proposed to address the costs of climate impacts on low-income countries – according […]