Oxfam Australia is an Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organization, and is an affiliate of the Oxfam International confederation.
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29 Facts About Oxfam Australia
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Oxfam Australia's work is divided into four broad categories covering climate justice, Economic Justice, Gender Justice and First Peoples Justice as well as Humanitarian response.
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Oxfam Australia's activities are mainly funded by community support income.
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Oxfam Australia can be traced back to the work of Father Gerard Kennedy Tucker in the 1950s, who was concerned about poverty in Asia following the Second World War.
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Large part of Oxfam Australia's work involves direct response to humanitarian emergencies.
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Once the immediate dangers of an emergency have passes, Oxfam Australia continues to work in the communities to ensure recovery it is good.
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Oxfam Australia had a major role in responding to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Response programs operated by Oxfam Australia included providing shelter to people who lost their homes, as well as small loans to help people setup small businesses.
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Oxfam Australia is a partner in the operation of the Joint Emergency Stores Warehouse, opened in Brisbane in October 2008.
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Oxfam Australia has worked in the Pacific region since the 1960s, supporting projects in areas such as primary education, youth community theatre, independent media, human rights training and business skills for women.
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Countries in which Oxfam Australia are currently working are Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
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In Southern Africa, Oxfam Australia is working in the following countries: Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
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Particularly, Oxfam Australia has publicised the life expectancy gap of Indigenous Australians, who on average die almost 20 years earlier than non-Indigenous Australians.
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Oxfam Australia is working together with other international organisations to persuade sportswear companies to respect and implement workers's rights.
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Oxfam Australia seeks to promote solutions by researching labour rights issues and making recommendations to major brands.
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Oxfam Australia's campaign focuses on several of the largest sports brands who collectively, through their suppliers, employ hundreds of thousands of workers throughout Asia.
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Oxfam Australia supports Publish What You Pay a campaign that lobbies mining companies to disclose monies paid to foreign governments in order to secure mining rights.
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Oxfam Australia believes these payments can lead to increased corruption in developing countries.
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Oxfam Australia put pressure on Melbourne-based miner, OceanaGold, over its Didipio gold-copper project in the Philippines.
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Oxfam Australia called for an Australian Federal Police investigation in 2007 after uncovering reports of bribery and human rights abuses.
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Oxfam Australia believes that poor communities in developing countries will be the ones worst affected by climate change and the least able to adapt.
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Oxfam Australia supported fair trade through its chain of Oxfam Shops.
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Oxfam Australia Shop was a registered Fair Trade Organisation by the International Fair Trade Association.
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The final 13 Oxfam Shops were closed in 2019 and Oxfam now distributes its Fair range of coffee through existing retailers in Australia.
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Oxfam Australia Trailwalker originated in Hong Kong in 1981 as a military training exercise for the Queen?s Gurkha Signals Regiment.
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Over time, Oxfam Trailwalker became one of the largest fundraising sports events in Hong Kong and now has massive success annually in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Belgium.
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Today community groups around Oxfam Australia hold several Walk Against Wants throughout the year.
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Oxfam Australia's activism has been criticized for being misguided and ill-informed over a number of years.
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