BLOGS

Hot topics in the classroom

How do you incorporate a controversial topic like refugees and asylum seekers into your classroom? This week's blog includes excellent resources to give you some starting points...

Aid: a view from the street

Our friends over at the ONE campaign in the UK recently took to the streets to find out what the general public already knew about foreign aid spending.

Bonn climate talks – reflections from a first time tracker

Amazing, frustrating and truly inspiring. That's how our UN Climate Tracker Clancy Moore describes the UN climate talks currently underway in Bonn, Germany.

Refugee Week

What are you planning for Refugee Week this year (June 19-25)? Our intern Ben Campbell gives you a few options.

Stopping hunger in Mozambique: Maria

This week we meet Maria Mahamade Sirangue, from Mabawane in Gaza Province. Oxfam News editor Maureen Bathgate visited Maria to hear more about the gardening techniques she’s been learning from our local partner, and the difference it’s made for her family.

Rising food prices are changing what we eat

Our global food survey results are in, and it's clear that food prices are indeed on the rise.

Paddy Cullen, (left) Oxfam's WA state Campaigner with Barry Haase

Head Banging for Climate Change

Oxfam's WA campaigner Paddy Cullen recently ran into Liberal MP Barry Haase in an airport lounge. The conversation over climate change action was... energetic.

Your messages of support handed to Mark Dreyfus

Last week, we delivered your message of climate action to Mark Dreyfus, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change.

Ivory Coast: seeds and food for more than 10,000

Meet Josephine, one of many farmers hosting refugees from Liberia, who has benefited from Oxfam's food distribution program just as her own supplies were running out.