Category: Campaigning for change
Stay up to date with Oxfam’s various campaigns.
Extreme weather, extreme food prices
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With greenhouse gas emissions at an all time high, and the world lurching towards a third food price spike in four years following the worst US drought since the 1950s, there is an alarming gap in our knowledge – how will an increase in extreme weather caused by climate change affect future food prices? To date, research on food […] Read more »
Jamie Briggs MP shows his support for Make Poverty History
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On a very cold and wet evening, members of the Mt Barker community braved the wintery conditions to participate in the Road to 2015 launch. Mr Jamie Briggs MP, the Federal member for Mayo, generously took time out of his busy schedule to open the exhibition that will be running at the Mt Barker Community […] Read more »
Rock for Recognition
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A new series of concerts called Rock for Recognition have been initiated in order to raise awareness and promote the need for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution. The inaugural Rock for Recognition headlined by Dan Sultan will tour to Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Fremantle and features a varied […] Read more »
Big letters against world poverty
On Friday the 10th of August I found myself on King Square in Fremantle. A city I hadn’t even heard of before, in my life. My name is Ruben and I’m a student from Germany. By chance I came into contact with Oxfam and signed up for two months of volunteering in Australia. The first […] Read more »
Good by name, awesome by nature: Julie Goodwin does it again!
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Oxfam ambassador and MasterChef extraordinaire Julie Goodwin bowed out of Masterchef All Stars last night, after raising $15,000 for Oxfam. And she sure went out in style! Read more »
Campaigning to Close the Gap at the NRL
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Last weekend, campaigners and volunteers hit footy grounds across the country to talk to fans about Indigenous health inequality, as part of the Close the Cap National Rugby League round. When I left home early on Saturday morning, I must admit to being slightly nervous about the reception we would receive. League fans are out to […] Read more »
Food crises doomed to repeat until leaders find courage to fix problems
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Millions of the world’s poorest people will face devastation from today’s rocketing food prices because the global food system is fatally flawed and policy-makers can’t find the courage to fix it. Policy-makers have taken cheap food for granted for nearly 30 years. Those days are gone. Developing countries are bracing themselves for the worst effects […] Read more »
First Home Project
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Welcome to Australia ambassador Jarrod McKenna, his wife Teresa and son Tyson are hoping to buy their first home. And they’d like it to be the first Australian home for refugees and asylum seekers who are facing Perth’s housing crisis too. There is a housing crisis in Perth. Only 2% of rental properties are vacant. The […] Read more »
Meeting Mike
Recently, Peter Leahy of Care Australia and I had the pleasure of meeting Mike Kelly, the federal MP in Eden Monaro electorate to speak about all thing Make Poverty History. Mr Kelly was genuinely interested in talking to us about all the issues concerned with the Make Poverty History campaign, taking an hour out of […] Read more »
Close the Gap and the NRL tackling Indigenous health inequality
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For the fifth year running, the NRL is dedicating a round of matches to Close the Gap – Australia’s largest campaign to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The round (3-6 August) will raise awareness of Indigenous health inequalities, but also encourage further cooperation to Close the Gap between our leaders and communities! Remind […] Read more »