Category - Australian government aid

Aid and development

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 one fell swoop, the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) died, its people and functions were hitched to those of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and an integrated...

Aid and development

Did Labor inflate future aid by over $3 billion?

In a word, no. But that’s what the Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham claimed during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade on 26 October. The claim was elaborated in a Coalition media backgrounder released the same day which said: [T]he Government’s claimed...