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Palestinian Territory, Occupied: Children and their families are returning to their homes or the remains of their homes to check the status of their homes. Photo: Alef Multimedia Company/Oxfam

November 21, 2012

Hillary, we need a bulletproof arms trade treaty

With a visit to Perth last week by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s...

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November 21, 2012

Coldplay in Sydney

If you can imagine 50000 people, an enormous stadium, the biggest band in the world, crazy lights, pyrotechnics… and people...

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Nokuthula with some of her pupils. Photo: Matthew Willman/OxfamAUS

November 15, 2012

Keeping them safe: Nokuthula’s story

In our latest blog post about keeping South Africa's most vulnerable children safe, the irrepressible Nokuthula talks about running her...

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November 14, 2012

Mohamed Nasheed: abuses of power in the Maldives

Some of you were lucky enough to attend our screening of The Island President at this year’s Human Rights Arts...

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Some of the ChangeCourse crew. Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

November 12, 2012

The ChangeCourse journey: part 3

Bonnie Hook brings us her third - and final - ChangeCourse blog post and emotions are running high!

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November 9, 2012

Australia signs on to Kyoto2

Oxfam Australia has welcomed the Government’s intention to join a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol, whose...

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Some of the children at Teresa's creche. Photo: matthew Willman/OxfamAUS

November 3, 2012

Keeping them safe: Teresa’s story

This week, we meet Teresa, one of the refugee women that RSS has helped to set up a home-based childcare...

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ChangeCourse 2012 participants and mentors. Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

November 1, 2012

The ChangeCourse journey: part 2

ChangeCourse 2012 has now well and truly kicked in, requiring participants to take a leap of faith in more ways...

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Win one of four double passes to AWME

November 1, 2012

Music: the universal language (and your chance to win!)

If you live in Victoria and love roots music from around the world, you’re in luck: we have four double...

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October 31, 2012

Queenslanders talk support for climate action and a freeze on global land grabs

Oxfam supporters made the most of their opportunity to meet Federal Member for Moreton Graham Perrett at his weekend mobile...

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October 23, 2012

A Twitter storm to support Kyoto 2

From the food crisis in West Africa to drought in the US, from receding Arctic ice to a dying Great...

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Kids absorbed in their colouring-in class at a home-based childcare centre, Durban. Photo: Gcina Ndwalane/OxfamAUS

October 22, 2012

Keeping them safe: how home crèches help

So where did this genius idea to train refugee women in South Africa to run their own home-based creches come...

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