Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on Australian aid. Australian Aid As part of a joint statement with his Canadian and New Zealand counterparts, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned Israel that the humanitarian consequences of a...
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Including civil society in a whole-of-nation approach to international policy
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...
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...
January 2024 aid news
Australian aid During her recent visit to the Middle East, foreign minister Penny Wong announced an allocation of $21.5 million in additional humanitarian assistance for civilians affected by the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan and called upon...
Development partnership plans: pitfalls and potential
A key element of the Australian government’s new international development policy, released in...
Australia to achieve membership of an African development bank...
The biggest disappointment of my time with responsibility for the Australian aid program was the...
What better data can tell us about Australian aid and women
In 2007, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer claimed that gender equality was...
December 2023 aid news
Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on...
Australia-Tuvalu deal brings a visa-free Pacific closer
The announcement that Australia will provide 280 permanent residency visas to Tuvalu each year as...
Equipping Australia for development impact
It’s rare that you get a death, marriage and birth all in the same moment. But ten years ago, in...