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It has been over a year since the conflict in Gaza escalated — a year of families living without their homes, their loved ones or the basic supplies they need to survive.

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Hilda, a climate activist, holds her open palm to the camera. Her palm has 'pay' written on it. The changes to the stage-three tax cuts are a step forward, but more needs to be done to address inequality.

February 14, 2024

Make Tax Fair: Stage-three tax cuts

Oxfam has been part of a movement of organisations advocating against the unfair stage-three tax cuts, which would have deepened...

Bertha stands by a vigil for her mother. Photo: Friends of the Earth Europe

May 11, 2016

“My mother taught us not to run when you are scared”

Berta Cáceres was brutally murdered on 2 March 2016. Why and by whom? Two months after her death there have...

Kampong Speu, Cambodia: Part-financed by the ANZ bank, Phnom Penh Sugar built a sugar mill on, and sourced from, disputed land. Photo: Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom/OxfamAUS

February 15, 2016

How exposed is your bank?

The big four banks could be endangering human rights and our environment. While we outline some positive first steps by...

The settlement known as Jatayvary of Kaiowa indigenous people, inside their demarcated land near Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The land is occupied by a sugar-cane farm that supplies Bunge, which is supported by Australia's Commonwealth Bank. Photo: Eduardo Martino/OxfamAUS

February 11, 2016

The ledger’s not good: the hidden costs behind our banks’ unreal profits

The big four banks’ ledger is not good. Last year, ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac announced the unreal combined profit...

Banks must take a zero tolerance approach to land grabs

October 6, 2015

Big banks beware: there are now no excuses

Oxfam's new report describes how Australia's big four banks can construct an approach with zero tolerance for land grabs.

Goreti Kirua from Papua New Guinea’s East Sepik region (pictured) holding payment papers she received from a logging company. “Foreigners forced us to sign consent forms; then they destroyed our forest,” says Goreti. Photo: Vlad Sokhin/OxfamAUS

June 5, 2015

Our banks need to listen and act!

Land grabs are not only plunging affected communities into poverty; it’s also bad for business. Shona Hawkes, Sustainable Food Advocacy...

The Guarani-Kaiowa people are still fighting for their land in Brazil. Photo: Eduardo Martino/OxfamAus

May 5, 2015

Banking on shaky ground: one year on

Communities unfairly forced off their land are plunged into poverty. They often face the threat of violence for speaking out...

December 17, 2014

What has ANZ done (and not done) on land grabs?

People often tell us that the bank response to their email about land grabs is confusing and full of jargon....

November 30, 2014

Seen 60 Minutes? Now put pressure on CBA and ANZ to adopt zero tolerance to land grabs

Together, we've been campaigning for six months to have Australia’s Big 4 Banks change their policies to land grabs. In...

November 27, 2014

Two of the big four banks take action to respect land rights

Westpac and National Australia Bank (NAB) have become the first of the big four banks to release a policy on...

November 19, 2014

Hundreds of hours spent researching finance links

Over the course of a year, Oxfam has spent hundreds of hours researching and documenting links between Australia’s big banks...

September 2, 2014

Why I wrote to my Bank

There’s something special about children’s movies that resonates in all of us……it’s the narrative that evil will never prevail…. Inevitably...