Category: Campaigning for change

A sunny Brisbane Sunday saw about 100 supporters turn out for Brisbane’s Eat Local Feed Global event at Northey Street City Farm. Senator Larissa Waters attended as guest speaker and was joined by supporters for a tree planting to help mark World Food Day, alongside speakers from Northey Street Cityfarm and Oxfam. In a brief […] Read more »

Today, on Blog Action Day 2012, thousands of people are discussing the topic: The Power of We. At Oxfam Australia we are part of a global movement of people, working to transform lives and fight the injustice of poverty. From our campaigns to field projects, Oxfam strongly believes in the Power of WE and collaboration. […] Read more »

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology. The new estimates show that progress in reducing hunger during the past 20 years has been better than previously believed, and that, given renewed efforts, it may be possible to reach the MDG hunger […] Read more »

“I got an email from Oxfam encouraging me to have a chat to my friends. About food. Over a meal. It was too good an opportunity to pass up so I registered to my own Eat Local Feed Global meal.” More than 150 people have so far registered to host their own Eat Local Feed […] Read more »

GET OUT You’ve got two minutes to get your things and get out. Stop crying. There’s nothing you can do. Say goodbye to your home. It’s gone. Not what you would expect from an Oxfam campaign? Sadly, as banks and private investors scramble to buy land in the developing world, stories of poor farmers and […] Read more »

Are you passionate about human rights? Can you tell a good story? Do you have an iPhone? The Australian Human Rights Commission is recruiting up to 10 people for the Tell Me A Story program. Participants will work with the Commission to produce short videos about ordinary people taking extraordinary human rights actions. You don’t […] Read more »

Australia’s bid for the UN Security Council looms large over Julia Gillard’s trip to the UN General Assembly in New York. The Prime Minister and her delegation will no doubt be in for a hand shaking, elevator pitching frenzy as Australia seeks to tie up support for the vote next month. Much of the discussion […] Read more »

Wild weather on Friday didn’t stop Oxfam GROW-RILLA gorillas setting up a guerrilla veggie garden in a Perth CBD parking bay and giving away vegetable seedlings to raise awareness of global hunger. Hundreds of other car parks were also converted to gardens all over the globe as part of World Park(ing) day. Oxfam’s GROW campaign […] Read more »

Last night, prior to the Perth Community Cabinet, four Government Ministers, the Attorney General and a Parliamentary Secretary joined forces with local Fremantle MP to support the Make Poverty History campaign. Fremantle MP, Melissa Parke, together with Attorney General, Nicola Roxon; Minister for Employment, Kate Ellis; Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek; Minister for Broadband, and […] Read more »

What’s for dinner tonight? Tidak ada, nada, niente, Không có, nothing! Well, maybe not literally nothing, but certainly very little and probably not that nutritious. That’s what 1 in 7 people around the world can expect each day – very little. So they go to bed hungry. In anyone’s language that’s not right! Join us […] Read more »