Get involved in a Make Poverty History event today! Details of our current events are listed below.

One Just World Forums
Climate Change Events
Parent's Against Poverty National Events
Create to Advocate 08

One Just World Forums

An initiative of International Women’s Development Agency, World Vision Australia and AusAID, the One Just World series aims to inform and provide ways to get more involved in making the changes needed to end global poverty and inequality and together build a more just and sustainable future. Forums are being held in capital cities around the country in the coming months.

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Climate Change Events

Climate change will affect us all, but it will affect poor people in developing countries first and most dramatically. Climate change is a serious challenge to our efforts to tackle poverty. The recently launched Make Poverty History Climate Change campaign aims to highlight the link between Climate Change and Development.

Join one of Make Poverty History’s major public events being held nationally during August and September 2008 to learn more.

Brisbane
Tuesday 9 September, 6.00pm
Peoples Forum on Climate Change, Global Poverty and Development
Steele Lecture Theatre, University of Queensland, St Lucia campus
RSVP by 3 September to annmatson@oxfam.org.au

Perth
Thursday 11 September, 11.30am–12.30pm
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY Climate Change Forum
Brian Hill Lecture Theatre, Murdoch University
Actions: 12.30 -1.30 (Bush Court)
RSVP by 7 September to paddyc@oxfam.org.au

Sydney
Make Poverty History – Global Climate Change Café You are invited to join the Make Poverty History Global Climate Change Café, for an evening of food, hot climate change speakers and workshops. Hear from keynote speakers about the human impact of climate change. Take part in interactive workshops to address the big climate change questions and have your say in how Australia should respond to this profound challenge of our times.
Wednesday 17 September, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
(Drinks, food, climate friendly actions and stalls from 5:30pm)
University of Technology, Sydney, Gallery Functions Centre on Level 6, Tower Building, Broadway

Speakers:
Maria Tiimon recently moved to Australia from the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati to work for Pacific Calling Partnerships
Julianne Richards CEO of the Climate Action Network Australia
Anna Rose founder and co-director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition

Workshops include:
Roadmap to Copenhagen 2009: what part should Australia take in the post-Kyoto negotiations?
Losing Your Land and Country, the Pacific Island experience: what actions should Australia take to support our Pacific neighbours affected by climate change?
Moving beyond the science and economics – climate change, equity and human rights: What role should social justice play in deciding Australia and the world’s response to climate change? More workshops still to be announced.

All Welcome! Free Entry
To RSVP or for more details email Cara Bevington at rsvp@oxfam.org.au

An Adelaide forum will be confirmed soon.

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Parent's Against Poverty National Events

Thanks to everyone who visited their MP on 7 July. We’ve been able to make a real impact on the MPs we visited. Several have committed to making speeches in Federal Parliament about Make Poverty History and the issue of Maternal and Child Health in the near future.

If you didn’t get a chance to visit your MP on 7 July, it isn’t too late! Make Poverty History is continuing to focus on this issue. The next few months are crucial as we lead up to a special event at Parliament House in Canberra with MPs at the end of September. We will be launching the report 'What will it take to achieve the health MDGs in South East Asia and the Pacific?'

Not exactly sure what to say? We have a lobby guide (PDF: 59 KB) to help you out! And here are some hand outs for Government MPs (PDF: 149 KB) and Opposition MPs (PDF: 149 KB). Make sure you email us to let us know so that we can support you.

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Create to Advocate 08

Explore, Imagine, Create, Explore a world where poverty is history...

After the wonderful success and feedback from last year’s national Create to Advocate Art Exhibition, Make Poverty History and Micah Challenge proudly present

Create to Advocate 08

Art Competition and Exhibition
Parliament House, Canberra
6 October – 2 November 2008

Official Opening: 14 October 2008
Entries Close: 29 August 2008

Download entry form (PDF: 103 KB)
Entry fee: $20 ($10 for unwaged.)

In 2008 every second child in the world lives in poverty; and 10 million children die each year from preventable and curable diseases. Speak out through art to make poverty history!

Create an artwork that expresses your vision to end global poverty. Entries should reflect upon and speak out on achieving the Millennium Development Goals, such as global primary education, basic health care, empowering girls, access to clean water and action on climate change! Works can be in any medium, including paint, pencil, photography, multimedia, sculpture and textiles.

Selected artworks will be exhibited at Parliament House, Canberra for the month of October 2008. Micah Challenge prizes awarded at the official opening on Tuesday, 14 October, 2008.

Artists gain the exciting chance of high profile exposure, selection for future campaign promotions and Micah Challenge Artist Awards and prizes.

For more information & ideas for artworks see www.micahchallenge.org.au.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
- Martin Luther King.

Micah Challenge Art Awards
1st prize $1,000
2nd prize $500

Micah Challenge Student Art Award (Under18)
1st prize $500
2nd prize $250

Download postcard flier here (PDF: 95 KB).

To order hardcopies of the postcard flyer, join the artists email list or get more information contact Jane McGeough at janemc@tear.org.au

View the online artworks from Create to Advocate 07 Exhibition.

Run your own Create to Advocate 08 exhibition.

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