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Middle East Crisis: the latest

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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January 16, 2018

Help school the big brands this summer

You know the holidays are over when you starting seeing advertisements for 'Back To School' sales. Unfortunately, many of the...

January 17, 2017

It’s time to target the obscene profits of the super-rich

Just eight billionaires are as wealthy as the poorest half of humanity, showing that the global inequality crisis is more...

Inequality between the rich and the poor is showcased in this photograph of Tondo slum set against the cityscape of Manila, Philippines, 2014

May 6, 2016

Budget 2016: Do you know what’s missing?

Budget 2016, it had it all: “the economy”, bracket creep, innovation, nimbleness, agility, debt and deficit. Surely that’s everything, right?...

January 28, 2016

What do Jamie Oliver, Bette Midler, Don Cheadle and 120,000 others have in common?

The fact that just 62 people own as much as half the world’s population has made headlines around the world,...

Barbara stands by the river to collect clean water. If everyone paid their fair share of tax, we could have a chance to meet the basic needs of people living in poverty, give them control over their own lives and the opportunity to change their futures.

January 18, 2016

The inequality stat that’s shocked the world

Extreme inequality is one of the defining issues of our time. Today, just 62 individuals have the same wealth as...

June 22, 2015

Australia: Show us the money to help end poverty in Addis Ababa

Helping to end poverty and inequality, and supporting communities to tackle climate change – they’re the biggest challenges facing the...

January 22, 2015

Rising inequality hits home for Australia

Next year the richest 1% of people in the world will have more wealth than the other 99% of people....

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director Oxfam International addressing the People's Summit in Brisbane, 14 November 2014. Photo: Jason Malouin/OxfamAus

November 15, 2014

G20 leaders must turn the tide on inequality and climate change

The two great challenges of our time -- inequality and climate change -- are threatening to undermine the efforts of...

Oxfam Australia's message to G20 World Leaders in Melbourne St South Brisbane. Photo: Ann Matson/OxfamAUS

November 14, 2014

G20 Leaders: Welcome to Brisbane

Remarkably more than half of the people in G20 countries, the economic powers of the world, live below the poverty...

"We always think about the crocodiles, but we just have to put our fear out of our minds. We are scared we might die, but there’s no other way to get water. Getting water from the river is the only way." - Barbara Chinyeu. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

November 13, 2014

I can’t remember a time when we have laughed together

Barbara's house is made of mud and has a tin roof. She's sitting outside, tearing Kalembla leaves from their stems,...

October 30, 2014

The politics of poverty and the new consensus for equality

In the lead up the G20 Leaders’ Summit in November, Oxfam Australia CEO Dr Helen Szoke spoke at The Bob...

July 14, 2014

75 years to achieve equal pay is too long

Women can expect to wait another 75 years before they receive the same amount of pay as their male counterparts....