For the first time in many years, overseas aid has been elevated to the spotlight during an election campaign, highlighting Australia’s potential to play a pivotal role in transforming our region and saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
Corinne Grant launches Oxfam Unwrapped with a ‘live’ stall at the Victoria Market
Albert Clarke, a 73-year old endurance athlete, does not fit the stereotype. He is, after all, an Indigenous person and he is older than what an average Indigenous Australian is expected to reach in age.
Oxfam continues calls for Australian mining companies in the Phillipines to be investigated after allegations that they are causing fishkill on the island where the companies operate.
Oxfam Australia has welcomed Labor’s commitment to demonstrate leadership in providing clean drinking water and sanitation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Andrew Hewett’s opinion on the effect that tax cuts won’t have on voters in this election.
Australia lags behind most developed countries in the amount of overseas aid it gives and has failed to fully implement more than half of its commitments to the global blueprint to combat poverty, a report by anti-poverty coalition Make Poverty History has found.
It’s time to speak out loudly and clearly for an Australian refugee policy which is non discriminatory and firmly based on the actual humanitarian needs of those seeking to resettle to this country. African-Australians have done absolutely nothing to deserve to be singled out for having apparently failed to integrate in their new home, Australia. They are no different from other vulnerable groups such as South Americans, Cambodians, and Vietnamese refugees who have previously looked to Australia for protection from persecution.
Stand up in support of African refugees who have resettled in Australia. That’s the clarion message 60 of Australia’s leading human rights and refugee advocates, religious groups and settlement service providers have voiced in a half-page open letter to Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews in today’s (15 October) The Australian.
Melbourne band Blue King Brown has joined more than 80,000 Australians in signing the Close the Gap pledge.