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Aid To Poor Countries Falls

Oxfam Australia’s announcement regarding the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development figures regarding the level of foreign aid to developing countries.

Shooting of Filipino villager by security guard of Melbourne based miner, OceanaGold, highlights need for independent oversight

Oxfam Australia is calling for an independent inquiry to determine whether the opposition of residents in a remote community in the Philippines is being appropriately responded to by Melbourne based mine operator OceanaGold, which plans to develop a gold and copper mine in the village of Didipio. The move follows reports that a security guard from the mine shot and wounded a villager.

Oxfam welcomes decision by Prime Minister Rudd to sign nine point plan to end Aboriginal health crisis

Oxfam Australia welcomed today’s decision by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to sign a nine point declaration of intent to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders on the final day of a three day Indigenous Health Equality Summit in Canberra. The statement of intent was drafted by Close The Gap, Australia’s largest ever campaign to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Reality for 34 million of the world’s refugees

Last week Australia’s only refugee camp was dismantled. Called Refugee Realities, the camp occupied Gasworks in Albert Park for four weeks while thousands of school children and members of the public visited. In building the camp, Oxfam’s aim was to help people understand that refugees are no different to the rest of us. They just happen to have lived in extraordinary circumstances.

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