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Unambitious Garnaut cements crisis

Together with the rest of Australia, Oxfam keenly anticipated the outcome of Professor Ross Garnaut’s final report on climate change 30 September. While Oxfam welcomed Professor Garnaut’s openness to a stronger target of 25 per cent by 2020 dependent on a global solution, we believe it is essential that Australia show leadership and set much firmer targets, encouraging other developed countries to do the same.

Paint Your Climate Change Picture

International aid agency Oxfam is inviting Australians to create their own piece of art that tells a story about the effect climate change is having on the developing world.

Actions must match rhetoric to Close the Gap

The Close the Gap coalition will today remind Federal and State government leaders meeting in Perth to match their rhetoric with actions to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

Civilians can be protected in conflict: Oxfam

As the Rudd Government vies for a spot on the UN Security Council in 2013, the protection of civilians throughout the world from conflict and mass atrocity crimes should be at the heart of Australia’s foreign policy, according to Oxfam Australia.

Global leaders fail to put their money where mouths are: Oxfam

As world leaders meet in New York at a special summit on poverty - the High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals – aid agency Oxfam has slammed the lack of urgency by the international community in tackling the ongoing food crisis now affecting close to one billion people.

Rudd’s New York trip vital in fight against poverty

Kevin Rudd’s attendance at Thursday’s UN meeting on aid and development in New York is vital to help ensure that the needs of poor people in our region - struggling with the crippling impacts of rising food and fuel prices and climate change - are well represented at the international forum.

Neighbours under threat

Poor countries around the world are feeling the impact of climate change, but the answers are in the industrialised world, writes Oxfam Australia’s Media Coordinator Laurelle Keough.

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