Oxfam Trailwalker Brisbane team “RedManRunners” finished the 100km trail in 14 hours tonight, a record time for a mixed team of two women and men to finish the Brisbane event. All-male team “Shane’s Holiday Xperience” crossed the finish line first, minus team member Shane Lawley who was forced to pull out early. “RedManRunners” were the […]
Oxfam Australia’s 3rd Trailwalker Brisbane event will get underway this morning, with the first gutsy walkers set to tackle the 100km trail. Today, 285 teams of four will attempt to walk or run 100km of Queensland bush from Mt Glorious to Mt Coot-tha, through the stunning D’Aguilar National Park. And a survey of Queenslanders, commissioned […]
More than half of Australians are so concerned about water prices, they would consider having no water access at certain times of day to keep their bills down, a new Oxfam Australia study has found. But despite worrying about their rising household bills, more than a third of Australians admitted they still wasted water and […]
As the United Nations launches its biggest ever humanitarian appeal, international aid agency Oxfam Australia is urging the Federal Government to increase its support for people affected by the Syrian civil war.
Kmart and Target’s decision to join a major Bangladeshi health and safety accord will help protect the safety of thousands of workers who make our clothes, according to Oxfam Australia.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from around Australia are heading to Canberra this month for some ‘Straight Talking’ with female Parliamentarians.
Nahed is 30 years old, the same age as me. She’s married with two daughters, whereas I’m single. I go home to my parents’ house on the Gold Coast when I’m not working overseas. She’s also living with her parents again. But that’s only because they fled the civil war in Syria together and came to Lebanon.
Tomorrow’s launch of the Journey to Recognition is a chance to unite the nation in support of recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution, Oxfam Australia said today.
Australia must stamp out corruption by following the US and EU’s lead and forcing oil, mining and gas companies based here and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange to report all payments to governments in the countries in which they operate.
While mining has undoubtedly been kind to at least one woman, Gina Rinehart, the sector has an appalling – and often hidden – track record for hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries around the world.