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Palestinian Territory, Occupied: Children and their families are returning to their homes or the remains of their homes to check the status of their homes. Photo: Alef Multimedia Company/Oxfam

February 25, 2011

National Close the Gap Day – 24 March 2011

What are your plans for 24 March? Join us for National Close The Gap Day and help end Indigenous health...

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Photo: Rodney Dekker/OxfamAUS

February 25, 2011

Mayor sees the bigger picture on climate change

Dr Brad Pettitt, electric bike rider, aid worker, professor of sustainability, and probably the coolest Mayor Fremantle ever had, is...

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February 25, 2011

Tides of Resilience in Federation Square

Oxfam's involvement in the Melbourne Sustainability Festival enabled thousands of people to truly understand the plight of people in Bangladesh...

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Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

February 25, 2011

One Just World

On Tuesday night, the Oxfam Summer Team attended the One Just World forum in Federation Square, Melbourne as part of...

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Photo: Jane Beesley/Oxfam

February 22, 2011

International Women’s Day 2011

Oxfam knows that women around the world achieve amazing things every day. We’ve been there supporting and empowering them to...

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Photo: Mathew Willman/OxfamAUS

February 14, 2011

Financing Economic Justice for the World’s Poor

With an increasing disparity between the wealthy and the poor of the world and a growing vulnerability to natural disasters,...

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February 11, 2011

La Niña in a nutshell

With increased frequency and severity of erratic weather events dominating our news, the weather process known as La Niña is...

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February 10, 2011

Oxfam Summer heats up at Big Day Out

Our Oxfam Summer team was out an about at the Melbourne Big Day out this year, despite the 38 degree...

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Army Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Jones Jr. hands a meal to a girl in Samarra, Iraq, March 31, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Ian M. Terry

February 10, 2011

Whose aid is it anyway?

Today Oxfam published a report that looks at a worrying trend we’re seeing in international assistance: the militarization and politicisation...

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February 5, 2011

Crisis of poor quality medicines being used as an excuse to push up prices for poor

A new report from Oxfam, "Eye on the ball" discusses how poor-quality medicines pose a serious threat to patients and...

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January 25, 2011

Comparing US states to countries

Which earns more: the state of Wisconsin or Finland? This new tool enables you to compare the GDP of US...

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January 25, 2011

Oxfam’s campaigns – what you thought

In 2010, we asked you what you thought about our campaign work. Here are the results.

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