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Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... of Australia's 47 billionaires has doubled to $255 billion in the last two years, according to anti-poverty charity Oxfam. A briefing published today by Oxfam, Inequality Kills, has warned of the deadly nature of the world's growing extreme economic ...

Billionaires profit from pandemic: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... income-inequity gap shows. Thirty-one Australian billionaires saw their bank balances swell between March and December 2020 in Oxfam's latest report The Inequality Virus. The majority of the 295 economists from around the world canvased in the survey ...

Should high-income earners pay charity levy?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... The system was developed through experts at Monash University's Sustainable Development Institute. It builds on the 2017 Oxfam International report which showed 'one percenters' grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017. Publishing a paper in the Public ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... billionaires amassed a $115.4 billion fortune in FY17, representing a 140% jump since the Global Financial Crisis, according to an Oxfam analysis. The Oxfam Growing Gulf Between Work and Wealth paper found Australia's richest 1% had more wealth than ...

Rich get richer fastest in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... in the share of income going to the wealthiest 1% since 1980 rose faster in Australia than any country bar the US, a new Oxfam report reveals. The report, titled 'Working for the Few', shows the rising levels of inequality between the richest and the ...

AustEthical director elected MLA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... solar panels, and is a keen supporter of groups such as the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Pedal Power, Oxfam, Anglicare and the Conservation Council. Le Couteur will become a major player in the ACT parliament during the next four ...

Insurance that gives and gives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... requires a Charity Life insurance policy valued at more than $2 million. Charities include Alzheimer's Australia, Reach, Oxfam Australia, The Salvation Army, Starlight Children's Foundation Australia, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Institute ...
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