16 things we’re excited about for 2016
Here at Oxfam Australia’s Schools Program, there are heaps of things we’re excited about for 2016. It was hard to narrow them down, but here – in no particular order – are our 16 for ’16!
BLOGS
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 of $30.8 billion. But this unreal profit came at a very real cost.
Volunteer spotlight: Jenny Gillett from Close the Gap, Perth
As we lead up to National Close the Gap Day on 17 March, Jenny shares why she's volunteering to promote Indigenous health equality and why we should work together to Close the Gap.
“Righting the wrongs”: it’s our responsibility to Close the Gap
On the day our Prime Minister hands down his government’s annual Closing the Gap report into Indigenous disadvantage, Oxfam’s Close the Gap campaign lead, Tom Widdup, considers the public campaign driving action to achieve Indigenous health equality.
These women are fighting against extreme poverty … with bananas.
Every day Irene would risk her life to water her crops and feed her children. Today, she's a co-producer at an award-winning banana farm and changing the future for her family. Discover how Oxfam and you make a difference to people in poverty around the world.
Oxfam is calling on Australians to call out racism
On Sunday, two men painted themselves black to represent ‘Indigenous Australians’ at an Aussie–icon themed party in the regional Victorian town of Ballarat, another partygoer dressed as Cathy Freeman, wore a cape and painted her face black.
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, but it’s just one step in the fight to get the action needed from governments, big business and the mega rich to reverse the tide of extreme inequality.
Climate justice: so hot right now!
2015 was a year of extremes. It was the hottest year on record for our earth. But 2015 also swept in a wave of extreme hope. You and I, along with millions of our sisters and brothers around the world, stood up and took real action on climate change.
How you can continue the healing
Health professional and proud Noongar woman Vicki Wade reflects on her people’s struggle to overcome generations of disadvantage and the subsequent health burden.
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 the poorest half of the world. That’s just 62 mega-rich individuals compared to 3.5 billion people.
