This is an edited extract from the opening address delivered by the Hon Pat Conroy MP at the...
Category - Australian government aid
Shifting the dial on gender equality in Australian aid
It’s no surprise that the coverage of Australia’s international development budget in October...
Why the “fall” in Australian aid for women is...
According to OECD data, the share of Australian aid devoted to empowering women started to fall in...
Labor reduces but does not eliminate Coalition aid cuts
This year’s aid budget (2022-23) has been increased from $4.55 billion under the Coalition to $4.65...
A new aid strategy: purpose, priorities, and plumbing
For just the third time in almost four decades, a Labor government will bring down a new strategy...
Time for a human rights based approach in Australia’s overseas...
With a change of government, there is scope to reinvigorate Australia’s aid program to focus on the...
Attention Labor: Australians don’t want aid cut
“All good things must come to an end”, I predicted glumly to myself over the weekend as...
Australia’s development finance review: a DFI at last?
As well as increased aid to the Pacific and Southeast Asia, among Labor’s pledges during the...
Australia’s international health funding: commitments and...
While commentators have remarked on how little attention Australia’s domestic COVID-19 situation...
Where now for Australian aid?
Late last month, in the middle of the night, in an old wooden house huddled against one of...