Latest Campaigns and Advocacy

Oxfam’s response to a meeting of the UN, World Bank, World Trade Organisation and 20 other agencies in Switzerland about the current food price crisis.

National Close the Gap Day (April 22) met with overwhelming public support, with 637 community events held everywhere from Mornington Island, QLD to Geraldton, WA to raise awareness about the need to close the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and other Australians.

Indigenous health organisations are calling on the Federal Government to back up its commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous life expectancy with commensurate funding in the upcoming Federal Budget.

Statement from Care Australia and Oxfam Australia at the conclusion of a three day meeting at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome about food security and humanitarian relief.

Oxfam Australia is calling for an independent inquiry to determine whether the opposition of residents in a remote community in the Philippines is being appropriately responded to by Melbourne based mine operator OceanaGold, which plans to develop a gold and copper mine in the village of Didipio. The move follows reports that a security guard from the mine shot and wounded a villager.

Oxfam Australia welcomed today’s decision by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to sign a nine point declaration of intent to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders on the final day of a three day Indigenous Health Equality Summit in Canberra. The statement of intent was drafted by Close The Gap, Australia’s largest ever campaign to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Oxfam Australia has released an absorbing new film, Journeys to Australia, that profiles five refugees and their journeys to Australia.

The Adelaide Crows kicked off the AFL season by urging the Australian government to commit to closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians within a generation.

Australia’s first ever simulated refugee camp opens to the public today in Melbourne. It will give visitors a chance to experience some of the harsh realities faced by millions of people around the world whose lives are affected by war and conflict.

Oxfam has urged Australia’s Minister for Climate Change to press the United States and 16 other nations attending a climate change conference in Honolulu to commit to mandatory emissions cuts as well as substantial new funding to help poor countries adapt to the impacts of climate change.