Criticism Oxfam Australia

in april 2007, 2 melbourne based academics lodged formal complaints australian competition , consumer commission investigate oxfam, alleging oxfam australia guilty of misleading or deceptive conduct under trade practices act, on sale of fairtrade coffee. believed fairtrade coffee should not promoted helping lift third world producers out of poverty because growers paid little beans.

in 2008 report criticized oxfam’s funding , aid projects stating fundamentally misguided , oxfam wrong on economics of multilateral trade negotiations

oxfam’s activism has been criticized being misguided , ill-informed on number of years. example, organization’s stance on intellectual property said “far quick blame hiv/aids crisis in developing world on patents , intellectual property regimes. concern not match facts - patents not major barriers preventing access vital medicines” , organization “may need decide how serious fixing problem, , perhaps consider reconciliation private enterprise.”