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An initiative of Oxfam Australia.
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, but the new federal budget has revealed the government plans to continue diverting funds from overseas aid programs to pay for domestic asylum seeker processing. Where does our money go? And why are we using "foreign aid" to lock people up?
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Students had the chance to grill Prime Minister Julia Gillard during last night's episode of Q&A. The special "High School Showdown" invited school kids to quiz the PM about the issues that matter to them most. Brianna Colgan, a year 12 student and avid 3things fan, decided to ask the PM what 3 things she's doing in her personal life to help change the world.
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Here’s a paradox for you: 870 million or 1 in 8 people are going hungry on our planet. But in the past decade, Oxfam research suggests global land deals have covered enough land to feed one billion people.
So if there is – theoretically – enough land to feed the world’s hungry, where are we going wrong?
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Dear state, territory and federal government leaders,
I got behind the Close the Gap campaign because I believed it’s totally unacceptable that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples die 10–17 years younger than non-Indigenous Australians.
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Put your arms up in the air! We're celebrating a monumental step forward in the struggle against global gun violence with the passing of a ground-breaking Arms Trade Treaty by the United Nations today.
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I know it sounds cliché, but the atmosphere was nothing less than inspirational. There was such a sense of unity and ‘power to the people’ as various movements and organisations from around the world came together to march in solidarity through the streets of Tunis chanting for a more just world. We picked up our own supporters along the way and joined in with the mantras of others as well from time to time. My favourite chant out of them all: ‘Women’s rights are human rights’.
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WTF is the World Social Forum? I've travelled to Tunisia with 30 other young activists from around the world to find out exactly that.
With thousands of workshops, music performances, exhibitions and activities scheduled to kick off in Tunis next week, it almost sounds like a summer festival with a social justice slant.
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Cool campaign alert!
Australia's politicians had a chance to reflect on the growing movement of Indigenous excellence as they sipped on their takeaway coffees from Aussie's Café in Parliament House.
That's one smart way to get a message in the hands, and on the lips, of our country's leaders.
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Many were in disbelief late last week when it was announced that Environmental Minister Tony Burke had given the go ahead for Indian Mining magnate Adani Group to be working in Tasmania's Tarkine region – effectively creating Australia's largest open cut coal mine in an area renowned for its highly diverse eco system.
In doing so, Burke ignored the recommendations of many, including the Australian Heritage Council, and now 96% of the region's wildlife faces an uncertain future.
The mine would have a maximum production capacity of 60 mega-tonnes per annum. A better way to comprehend this figure is to think of it this way - when an amount of coal that large is burned, it releases more than 128.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air, overtaking the fuel combustion of Sweden, Norway and Denmark combined!
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As a relatively new Oxfam volunteer with the Brisbane campaigns team, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to go out into the field and actually make a difference working on the GROW campaign and raising awareness of the impact of land grabs on small scale food producers in some of the world’s poorest countries.
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