Campaigning for change

Funding required to support low-income countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change, also known as climate finance, as well as funding to compensate for its irreversible consequences, known as loss and damage funding, is more important than ever. 

It is essential that countries make commitments at COP26 that will limit global warming to 1.5°C and avoid devastating impacts to lives and livelihoods.

Article written by Anthea Spinks, Oxfam Australia Programs Director As the final US planes flew out of Kabul this week, the hopes of thousands of Afghan people to also leave their country were dealt a heavy blow. With the country now devoid of foreign forces for the first time in 20 years, what happens next […]

In August we saw the release of the report from the International Panel on Climate Change. It provides the latest information on past warming and future warming projections, showing how and why the climate has changed to date, and including an improved understanding of how humans have influenced the climate.

What will the world’s response to the COVID-19 crisis mean for the two defining and interconnected challenges of our age: climate change and global inequality?  

Is the UN conference on climate change doing its job? Our climate experts reflect on the discussions, lack of outcomes and hope for the future.

Best&Less have made a strong commitment to pay living wages throughout their supply chains. 

After years of campaigning from Oxfam supporters, Factory X commit to pay a living wage

Celebrating two years of tackling poverty in the fashion industry

From clever and hopeful, to the funny and angry, our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike

Here are our top 5 take homes after the global #ClimateStrike

Advocacy Lead Simon Bradshaw reports back from the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu

Dabessa and his wife Lelisse are members of the Oromo ethnic community in Ethiopia. After nine long years of persecution, separation and uncertainty, their family was reunited in Australia in 2013.

Originally from South Sudan, Lucy has lived in Australia since 1991. She was separated from her three-year-old daughter Susan in 1988 due to civil war in Sudan. They were eventually reunited in Australia in 1994.

In the Pacific, the climate crisis is a matter of survival for our most vulnerable nations.

Best&Less have published 100% of their Tier 1 supplier lists, bringing their factories out of hiding and ensuring their supply chain is transparent. 

Country Road Group and David Jones made a big step forward on factory safety by joining the important Bangladesh Fire & Building Safety Accord. 

Melbourne-based fashion label ELK have made a real commitment to ensuring workers in their supply chain are paid a living wage.  

Recent extreme weather events, in Australia and globally, are demonstrating that we are already living in the climate crisis.

Cotton On has just announced they are strengthening their commitment to a living wage! Congratulations, Cotton On.

To celebrate, comedian Sammy J recorded a special thank you message to congratulate them. Watch the video.

City Chic was the first Australian brand to make a real commitment to a living wage. 

Sammy J speaks for a lot of us – when we’re shopping, we all love a bargain. But, the bargain shouldn’t be what she makes.

How one local woman is mobilising villages to show their love for the free-flowing river, and defying those who wish to exploit it.