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Report on LNG Project in PNG warns of major challenges

A new report on the impacts of the multi-billion dollar LNG Project in Papua New Guinea highlights the industry’s achievements in addressing social change but warns of continuing major concerns that need to be addressed, a coalition of NGOs said today.

Inventive recipes sought to help tackle hunger

What could you create with humble vegetables like eggplant, radishes, beetroot, capsicum and spinach?

Leading aid agency Oxfam Australia is throwing out this challenge to food lovers around Australia, to draw attention to its Stop Hunger appeal. Selected recipes will be featured in an online recipe book, alongside those of some of Australia’s leading chefs and food writers.

Are our Olympic stars in uniforms made in sweatshops?

Oxfam is calling on the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to ensure workers producing sportswear for Australia’s Olympic athletes are treated fairly, after a new report highlighted the exploitation of workers producing sportswear for the London Games.

Celebrity chef and Adelaide Lord Mayor to launch Fair Trade Fortnight

Celebrity chef Simon Bryant, from the ABC’s “The Cook and the Chef‟, will join Lord Mayor Stephen Yarwood in the kitchen this week to help launch this year’s Fair Trade Fortnight. The event will be taking place at the Adelaide Central Markets, this Saturday 5 May 2012 between 11.00am and 1.00pm.

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