Australia the generous nation?
So where does Australia’s generosity rank in terms our contribution to making poverty history? The answer: a lowly 16th out of the world’s 23 richest nations.
BLOGS
Suparjo’s adidas story
In this film, Suparjo shares the challenges that he has faced since his unfair dismissal from an adidas supply factory in 2005. Suparjo hopes that by sharing his story, people in Australia and elsewhere will be inspired to take action and support the rights of workers in Indonesia, so that they can have better lives.
2010 online election
Most candidates in the federal election are madly Facebooking, Tweeting, blogging and even Foursquaring their way around Australia, but is this campaign actually going to live up to expectations and be a true digital election?
Walking for Climate Action – August 15, 2010
On Sunday 15 August join thousands of Australians around the country as we Walk Against Warming and tell the politicians it's time for them to face up to their responsibilities on climate change.
20 hours from Jakarta: another world
In mid May I asked for leave from my union activities at GSBI and returned for a fortnight to my parent’s house in a village near the city of Solo, Central Java. At the village I kept busy helping my parents in the fields. My parents are farmers and do not have any regular income. Their own land doesn’t yield enough to cover every day necessities. So to fulfil their daily needs they work as labourers on other people’s land. With their meagre income, my parents still support two of their children (my older sister and young sister), as well as three grandchildren (from my older sister).
Debt relief for Haiti (sort of)
Haiti is finally getting some relief from its debilitating international debt. Unfortunately, it’s also getting some more debt.
An explanation of the political system
Vibewire's electionWIRE teamed up with Hungry Beast's Kieran Ricketts to explain the political system, the political parties and the upcoming election.
PM Gillard on Australia’s foreign aid
Oxfam's Paddy Cullen asks Prime Minister Gillard her stance on Australia's commitment to foreign aid spending
The Story of Cosmetics
The people behind the amazing Story of Stuff have teamed up with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics to produce another animated documentary - The Story of Cosmetics.
ACFID 2010 Federal election call to the parties
The Australian Council of International Development have released their 2010 Federal Election key asks
