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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
Kadija Hamsoou and her son Haruna, collecting household items in Niamey, Niger. Photo: Louise Mooney/OxfamAUS

September 19, 2012

West Africa: a long-term plan

Louise Mooney is the humanitarian program coordinator for Oxfam Australia's Africa unit, and is currently in Niger to see how...

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September 6, 2012

Cabinet rallies to Make Poverty History while PM discusses new UN leadership role

Last night, prior to the Perth Community Cabinet, four Government Ministers, the Attorney General and a Parliamentary Secretary joined forces...

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September 6, 2012

Eat Local Feed Global with us this World Food Day

What’s for dinner tonight? Tidak ada, nada, niente, Không có, nothing! Well, maybe not literally nothing, but certainly very little...

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September 4, 2012

Everything you wanted to know about the Bangkok climate talks but were afraid to ask

Negotiators are in Bangkok for another round of UN climate talks (30 Aug – 5 Sep). This is an “intersessional”...

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Andrew and Natasha meet some women who have benefited from Oxfam's cash-for-work program. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam

August 28, 2012

Reflections from Burkina Faso

Oxfam Australia's ED Andrew Hewett reflects on his experiences in Burkina Faso: the scenes he'll never forget, the people he...

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August 23, 2012

Jamie Briggs MP shows his support for Make Poverty History

On a very cold and wet evening, members of the Mt Barker community braved the wintery conditions to participate in...

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August 20, 2012

Big letters against world poverty

On Friday the 10th of August I found myself on King Square in Fremantle. A city I hadn’t even heard...

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August 20, 2012

Australia supporting Kyoto2

Remember how you felt in 2007 when we belatedly ratified the Kyoto Protocol? The broad community support for our signing...

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August 17, 2012

World Humanitarian Day 2012

Sunday 19 August is World Humanitarian Day (WHD), and this year's theme is "Do something good, somewhere, for someone else."

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Andrew Hewett and Natasha Stott Despoja meets residents of Mentao Refugee camp. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam

August 16, 2012

On the ground in West Africa

Oxfam's Andrew Hewett and former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja are currently visiting Burkina Faso, one of the West African...

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Muntu Valdo, musician, Cameroon. Photo: Charlotte Wales/Oxfam

August 10, 2012

“We are all African”

Some of African most talented musicians, actors and writers have joined forces in support of West Africa, writing a public...

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A resident sits on the window of a house swamped with floodwaters in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. Photo: Reuters/Erik de Castro

August 9, 2012

Flooding in the Philippines

What we know so far about this week's floods in the Philippines.

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