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Buying a hand-crafted fair trade gift from Oxfam this Mother’s Day will help mothers all around the world to escape the poverty cycle.

Celebrity chef Simon Bryant, from ABC’s “The Cook and the Chef”, will be cooking chocolate muffins using Oxfam ‘fair’ products at Foodland, Norwood (161–169 The Parade, Norwood), on Monday 7 May 2012, hourly between 10am and 2pm.

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.

Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees face desperate, life-threatening water shortages and a growing threat of fatal disease in Jamam camp in South Sudan and must be urgently moved to a new site, international agency Oxfam said today.

This budget will test the strength of Australia’s convictions – and commitment – to help the world’s poorest.

The weather did not stand in the way of success for those participating in the Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne this weekend, with all walkers picking up their pace to walk 100km as a team of four. The event wrapped up at 3:30am this morning – the earliest that it has ever finished in Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne’s […]

Early tomorrow morning 3000 people will start a journey they will never forget, walking 100km in teams of four to raise money for Oxfam Australia’s work to help people around the world find long-term solutions to poverty. Tomorrow’s Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne will see the largest participation in the event’s 10 year history with 3000 people […]

The upcoming budget will test the strength of Australia’s convictions to help improve the lives of the world’s poor, many of who live in nearby countries.

In the first weeks after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, I remember meeting a young man called Anthony in a village called Manakudy, on the southern tip of Tamil Nadu in India. He was about 17 years old, and had lost both his father and sister to the deadly waves.

Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Australia was last night ranked 13th in aid by the OECD, highlighting the need for Julia Gillard to keep her promise to increase the amount of Australian aid given to poor people around the world.