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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from around Australia are heading to Canberra this month for some ‘Straight Talking’ with female Parliamentarians.

Nahed is 30 years old, the same age as me. She’s married with two daughters, whereas I’m single. I go home to my parents’ house on the Gold Coast when I’m not working overseas. She’s also living with her parents again. But that’s only because they fled the civil war in Syria together and came to Lebanon.

Tomorrow’s launch of the Journey to Recognition is a chance to unite the nation in support of recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution, Oxfam Australia said today.

Australia must stamp out corruption by following the US and EU’s lead and forcing oil, mining and gas companies based here and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange to report all payments to governments in the countries in which they operate.

While mining has undoubtedly been kind to at least one woman, Gina Rinehart, the sector has an appalling – and often hidden – track record for hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries around the world.

The vast majority of Australian mining, oil and gas companies have no clear public commitment to gain the consent of Indigenous peoples before commencing projects on their land, according to a new report.

Oxfam Australia has welcomed the Federal Budget allocation of $777 million over three years to renew the national partnership agreement for closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, but calls on state and territory governments to follow suit.

International aid agency Oxfam Australia says Prime Minister Julia Gillard has failed an important test in keeping her promise to increase support to the world’s poor.

Tomorrow’s federal budget was the first time her commitment to increase overseas aid levels to only 50 cents in $100 of national income would have been seen in the budget papers.

Oxfam Australia is urging the Australian Government to honour its commitment to grow the overseas aid program in next Tuesday’s Federal Budget.

Oxfam Australia is urging some of Australia’s biggest retailers to immediately release the locations of their factories in Bangladesh, as the death toll from last week’s collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka climbs to more than 400.