Sixteen Australian charities, including Oxfam, joined forces today to launch the newly-formed Emergency Action Alliance at an online event that featured prominent government leaders, media executives and charity leaders. In an historic move the humanitarian agencies will be uniting in their campaign and fundraising efforts to improve how Australians can support and donate when large […]
Oxfam has welcomed the Federal Government’s engagement with the Aboriginal community-controlled sector to deliver more than $1 billion in new funding to improve the wellbeing of First Peoples. “It’s pleasing to see significant contributions to support critical improvements in key areas, such as more than $250 million to support Aboriginal medical clinics and $75 million […]
The annual Sydney Trailwalker event has been cancelled as New South Wales continues to face an evolving Covid-19 outbreak and ongoing restrictions and strategies to help stop the spread of the virus. Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said it was not possible to hold this year’s event, which had been scheduled to take place […]
The cost of vaccinating the world against COVID-19 could be at least five times cheaper if pharmaceutical companies weren’t profiteering from their monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines, campaigners from the People’s Vaccine Alliance said today. New analysis by the Alliance, which includes Oxfam, shows that the firms Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are charging governments as much as […]
Oxfam Australia is excited to announce it is moving to a new home in West Melbourne. Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said the move to 355-358 William Street would represent an exciting new chapter in the Oxfam Australia story. “While we are leaving behind 14 years of great memories of our green building in Carlton, now […]
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “Today is another sad and shameful day for our nation, with the death in custody of Ngemba man Frank ‘Gud’ Coleman, who was 43 years old. We at Oxfam would like to pass on our condolences to his grieving family, who reportedly had been unable to visit him […]
A new Oxfam report reveals that as many as 11 people are likely dying of hunger and malnutrition each minute. This is more than the current global death rate of COVID-19, which is around seven people per minute. Overall, 155 million people around the world are now living in crisis levels of food insecurity or […]
Human and economic impact on low-income nations will be much worse The economies of all of the nations invited to this year’s G7 summit could see an average loss of 11.5% annually by 2050 ― equivalent to US$9.4 trillion ― if leaders do not take more ambitious action to tackle climate change, according to Oxfam’s […]
At current vaccination rate low-income countries would be waiting 57 years for everyone to be fully vaccinated More than a million people have died from COVID-19 since G7 leaders last met back in February, when they made vague pledges to increase the global vaccine supply, but crucially failed to collectively back the waiver of intellectual […]
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from across Australia can now apply to participate in a week-long summit in Canberra to build their political engagement skills to make positive changes in their communities. Part of Oxfam Australia’s Straight Talk program – which is now in its 12th year – the national summit will run from 17-22 October. […]