CAMPAIGN IMPACT REPORT - The Oaktree Foundation

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WE REAFFIRM OUR PLEDGE, FIRST MADE IN THE YEAR 2000, THAT WE WILL SPARE NO EFFORT TO FREE OUR FELLOW MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM THE ABJECT AND DEHUMANISING CONDITIONS OF EXTREME POVERTY, TO WHICH MORE THAN A BILLION ARE CURRENTLY SUBJECTED. With only five years until the international goals to address extreme poverty are due, there is now an urgent need to recommit ourselves to this task. We can and will do our fair share to achieve all the Millennium Development Goals. Our actions of the last twenty years have already succeeded in halving rates of extreme poverty. Within a generation we can and will make poverty history. THE ACT TO END POVERTY Through the combined efforts of grassroots street campaigning on the Roadtrip and our online and social media strategy, 47,091 people signed our petition, the Act to End Poverty. Our lobbying around the Act to End Poverty was rewarded when the Act to End Poverty was debated in the House of Representatives and passed as a motion. As a motion, the Act to End Poverty focuses the attention of politicians on the issue, represents the official endorsement of the Parliament and puts a commitment to the Millennium Development Goals on the public record forever. This is a milestone in the Federal government’s commitment to ending extreme poverty and a powerful symbol of what the campaign has already achieved. The MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY Roadtrip was an initiative of the Oaktree Foundation, one of 60 organisations that comprise the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY coalition.
Never give up fighting for the destitute. This is your world. > TIM COSTELLO, FINAL PLENARY, CANBERRA SUMMIT MEETINGS WITH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT At the Canberra Summit, we held a breakfast for MPs to hear our message first hand, and to engage with our ambassadors. In just 45 minutes, three hundred ambassadors met with 143 political representatives. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith spoke, as well as Scott Morrison MP (Liberal Party), Senator Sarah Hanson- Young (Greens) and Senator Guy Barnett (Liberals Party). Also in attendance were Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and Environment Minister Peter Garrett. Outside the breakfast we also engaged with The Hon. Bob McMullan MP, former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, deputy Greens leader Christine Milne, deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop, Greg Hunt MP and many others. Additionally in Canberra we held a policy consultation with the Australian Youth Forum, part of the Federal Office for Youth. The notes from the session, and the ideas generated, will help form government policy around the UN Review Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York in September. Ambassadors responded to the question: going into the UN Summit this September, how can Australia show global leadership in achieving the Millennium Development Goals? It is encouraging to see that the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY movement in Australia and around the world has not been just a fad… but has become an ongoing and systematic campaign which is helping translate its objectives into the policies of government. Through such campaigns, spearheaded by an army of young Australians such as those we witnessed during parliament some weeks ago, we have seen the rates of extreme poverty decrease considerably.” > MARIA VAMVAKINOU, MP FOR CALWELL The MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY Roadtrip was an initiative of the Oaktree Foundation, one of 60 organisations that comprise the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY coalition.
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