Speaking up for children in detention
A global campaign to end the immigration detention of children was recently launched by the International Detention Coalition. This month, Australia comes under their spotlight — with good reason.
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National Volunteer Week: in full swing
National Volunteer Week is in full swing, and we're still celebrating! This time, some of Oxfam Australia's key people share their thoughts about our wonderful vollies...
Designing a better future
And we have a winner! We're pleased to announce the winner of our GROW design challenge, run in conjunction with our partners at RedBubble. Read on...
“The world must step in to avert South Sudan crisis”
Ongoing conflict in Sudan and South Sudan continues to cause great suffering among refugees who've been forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in over-crowded, ill-equipped refugee camps. Jamam is one such camp, as Oxfam's Pauline Ballaman describes.
Stopping hunger in Sri Lanka: Sundaradevi’s story (part 1)
This week, we introduce you to Alagaiah Sundaradevi, a single mother from the village of Dimbulagala. Unlike Chandrani and Indrani, Sundaradevi isn’t a home gardener (yet). Instead, she’s stopping hunger through SRI rice farming — an organic method of rice-growing that produces higher yields than the traditional method and is more resistant to flood and […]
National Volunteer Week: time to celebrate!
Oxfam Australia's vollies are central to our work: their amazing efforts help us achieve so much more than we’d be able to with just paid staff. And what better excuse than National Volunteer Week to celebrate this truly fab bunch of people?
Uni is in full swing and the Oxfam Uni groups are no exception
The university semester is in full swing and our Oxfam groups are at full pelt campaigning, studying, partying and general uni shenanigans.
Stopping hunger in Sri Lanka: Indrani (part 2)
In part two of her interview, Indrani talks about being her family's primary breadwinner, encouraging other villagers to start their own home gardens, and the joys of raising chickens.
Play Fair at the Olympics
While our athletes prepare to go for gold at the London Olympics, the workers who make the clothes they wear are being forced to work excessive hours for poverty-level wages, a recent report has found. Oxfam is calling on the Australian Government to ensure workers who produce sportswear for Australia’s Olympic athletes are treated fairly. […]
Nestle – Not so pure
Nestle claims to endorse the pure life, but dirty practices continue at the factories that produce its products Almost 10,000 people have joined the campaign to get Nestle to respect trade union rights in Indonesia. The IUF began the online campaign after 53 union members at the company’s factory in Panjang, Indonesia were fired as […]
