The Close the Gap campaign ended on a high in 2007. At their meeting in Melbourne on December 20, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) committed to close the 17 year life gap between Aboriginal & Strait Islanders and other Australians.
ARIA award winning popular singer songwriter Missy Higgins today visited Australia’s first Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service in Redfern, Sydney.
Campaigners concerned at the 17-year life gap between Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians will show their support for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s decision to place the health of Indigenous people top of the agenda at COAG’s meeting today by forming a welcoming committee outside Melbourne’s Government House.
Bali has for the first time drawn up a roadmap for all countries to tackle climate change. But a handful of powerful countries have relegated the overwhelming scientific evidence to a footnote. The Bush Administration – dragging Canada, Japan and Russia in tow – has thrown away the compass and is trying to force us all to take the journey in a gas-guzzling 4×4, not the solar-powered speedster that the world urgently needs.
Oxfam Australia welcomed today’s announcement by the federal opposition to back the Bali roadmap goal of a 25-40 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The aid and development agency now urges the Federal Labor Government to follow their lead and back a Bali plan to dramatically cut carbon emissions over the next decade to avoid climate chaos.
Hours after Nobel Peace Price Laureate Al Gore pointed to the obstructionist role of the United States at the UN climate change conference, the US proposed new language that would swap binding emissions cuts for rich countries with a voluntary approach for all countries, according to Oxfam Australia.
Oxfam Australia today (12 December) welcomed many aspects of the new climate change course set for Australia by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his address to delegates at the opening of today’s UN Climate Change talks in Bali.
Delegates at the climate change negotiations in Bali have reached a key agreement that will set the course for how funds will be made available to poor countries to help them avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Oxfam Australia today urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to show world leaders the way and commit the nation to a global fund to provide the world’s poor with the resources necessary to adapt to the worst impacts of climate change as well as ratify the Kyoto Protocol at this week’s UN Bali Climate Change Conference.
Today, on World Aids Day, Oxfam Global Ambassador Annie Lennox is launching SING, a new charity single calling on women to ‘sing out’ around the issues of HIV and AIDS.