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Oxfam Australia welcomes the Government’s announcement today of a pilot seasonal scheme for Pacific workers.

Oxfam today welcomed the decision by the Australian Competition Consumer Commission to reject, for a second time, the tired and purposely misleading claims made by the Institute of Public Affairs that Fair Trade is not helping poor people.

This weekend in the SANFL Round 18, Sturt and the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club are joining forces in support of their Aboriginal players and promoting the Close the Gap campaign, which aims to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The breakdown in trade talks in Geneva would leave the world’s poorest people increasingly vulnerable at a time already plagued with great uncertainty around food and fuel prices, international aid agency Oxfam said today.

The Close the Gap coalition today presented the federal government and Opposition with a set of National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to address the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The Government has missed a key opportunity to assist our developing country neighbours to cope with the impacts of climate change, Make Poverty History said today.

An Australian immigration program with a quota for “climate change refugees” is amongst recommendations in a Make Poverty History report, being launched today.

After violent attacks on a compound in Kerfi, Oxfam has suspended its aid operations in eastern Chad.

Oxfam Australia welcomes the annoucement by the Human Rights Commission in the Philippines that they will investigate Australian mining company OceanaGold.

Oxfam’s response to the committements made by leaders of the G8 countries at the conclusion of the summit in Japan on 9 July 2008.