Key development, diplomacy and defence policies have called for Australia to take a “whole-of-nation” approach to its engagement with the world. But what does this look like? Moving beyond a whole-of-government approach to a whole-of-nation approach involves a range of other actors from fields...
Category - Australian development policy
Harold Mitchell: thank you and vale
The death of “adman” and philanthropist Harold Mitchell AC on February 10 has been widely mourned, as well it should be. Australia’s leaders from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese down have recorded their tributes to this larger-than-life character, whose achievements are all the more remarkable for...
Australia-Tuvalu deal brings a visa-free Pacific closer
The announcement that Australia will provide 280 permanent residency visas to Tuvalu each year as part of a new treaty between the two countries is the latest in a series of pathbreaking Pacific migration initiatives unveiled by Australia’s Labor government. In this blog I explore how the new...
Show me the (development) money!
According to the giant screen that formed a permanent backdrop to the proceedings, I spent 12 September attending the Development Policy Forum, jointly hosted by the Development Policy Centre, the Australian Council for International Development, the International Development Contractors Community...
Changing how we deliver our development assistance
This is an edited transcript of the speech delivered by Pat Conroy, Minister for International...
A ‘new’ development policy? Or did Australia just miss its...
A new development policy for Australia presented an opportunity to reinvigorate a program that has...
Does Australia’s new development policy leave you feeling...
Right from the start, reading the new Australian international development policy left me tense. It...
Development as a tool of statecraft
Cameron Hill described Australia’s new development policy as Labor’s turn to statecraft on this...
The Australian aid objective: COVID-19 and China
The various and evolving ways in which the Australian government has described the objectives of...
Labor turns to statecraft
The government has, after several months of speculation, now released its new international...