Latest Media Releases

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.

Andrew Hewett’s opinion on the effect that tax cuts won’t have on voters in this election.

Oxfam Australia has welcomed Labor’s commitment to demonstrate leadership in providing clean drinking water and sanitation in the Asia-Pacific region.

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.

Opinion from Oxfam International Action Partner Rebecca Richards on Indigneous mental health.

Australia’s mining sector is booming with some companies raking in multi-billion dollars profits. Everyone from shareholders to the national treasury stand to reap a reward in the mining bonanza. But have some Australian miners been driven by an unquenchable thirst to mine precious minerals at any price?