Oxfam Australia Media Release As Coles Group and Woolworths announce their full-year profits for 2024, Oxfam Australia is calling for urgent action to address the growing inequality in Australia by better taxing the excessive profits of big corporations. Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Officer Lyn Morgain highlighted the injustice of the supermarket duopoly’s profits as the…
In response to the federal Coalition’s proposal for $100 billion in cuts to housing, transport, education, and climate solutions, the 30 undersigned organisations released the following statement: Peter Dutton and the Coalition made their priorities clear today with a proposal to gut social services and roll back Australian renewables – all to fund their expensive…
On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law. As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) president to China, stated at an anniversary event at the Swiss Embassy in Beijing, “In the past 75 years, the…
I remain conflicted. Which might be a good or a bad thing. Or perhaps neither. Others have attempted to muse philosophically in the open press. It usually results in a communications train wreck. The reader is not happy. The author doesn’t really say what they wanted to say. An editor confronts a barren comments section.…
Indigenous Business Australia Media Release Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) launched its first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing at the centre of consideration – wellbeing of Country, culture and community. IBA launch 1st ESG strategy with wellbeing at the centre of consideration. Seeks to move beyond compliance and…
ActionAid Media Release Nuku’alofa, TONGA – At least US$1 trillion is needed to support low-income countries bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, according to a new report – Seizing the Moment: A New Climate Finance Goal That Delivers for the Pacific. The report’s release by a coalition of NGOs coincides with the attendance of…
It began as a devastating, confined storm off the coast of Sicily, striking the luxury yacht Bayesian in the form of a devastating water column resembling a tornado. Probability was inherent in the name (Thomas Bayes, mathematician and nonconformist theologian of the 18th century, had been the first to use probability inductively) and improbability the…
By Jane Salmon 10,000 people have no rights in Australia because they have been mishandled by Morrison’s fast track system. There is no pathway to permanency for them. They have run the gauntlet of courts, expensive lawyers and more. They have nowhere else to go. This is their home. Labor has not come up with…
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La Trobe University Media Release La Trobe Ideas and Society Program presents Domestic Violence: Why? What has to be done? This year has seen a sharp rise in awareness of the violent, sometimes murderous, threats to women and their children, by current or former intimate partners. The terrible stories of Rosie Batty, Hannah Clarke and…
Healthy Futures Media Release Today, the Australian Government took a significant step towards improving the integrity of Australia’s emissions reporting by committing to creating an expert panel to advise on fixing under-reporting methane pollution and removing outdated estimate-based methods for calculating methane emissions. This comes after Healthy Futures, one of Australia’s leading health and climate advocacy…