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From Marcus on Want to sell aid to the Australian public? Look to values, not national interests
Terence and Camilla, is it possible that the Ministers you quote aren't talking to "all Australians" (the demographic that the survey samples), but rather, are talking to the populist right flank of the Australian voting public that currently vote coalition, but are considering switching their support to One Nation (or similar)? I think the proposition that Australians are generally supportive of helping poor people in foreign countries is credible, but the populist right of the Australian voting public probably have a different attitude to foreign aid, and I think the Ministers may be referring more to the latter group, rather than all Australians. What do you think?
From Terence Wood on Want to sell aid to the Australian public? Look to values, not national interests
Thanks Chris, a good question
*Looking at correlations*
It's not quite what you're after but I looked for a relationship between support for aid and positive views about multilateral organisations and positive views about China and Indonesia in this (older) paper and found a positive correlation: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2672704
There were also questions asked about globalisation in the survey the paper was based on. There seems (with some caveats) to be a positive correlation between people who view globalisation as good for them (or for Australia, which was an additional question) and support for aid. However, the relationship isn't super robust.
I need to look through our other datasets and see whether we have any surveys in which people were asked about climate change and about aid. That would be an interesting one to look at too.
*Looking at message testing*
This is what I think you're asking after. I agree it would be an interesting area. It may well be better approached experimentally rather than simply looking for correlations. We haven't done this yet. If you have good ideas for questions, please email them to us.
Terence
From Chris Roche on Want to sell aid to the Australian public? Look to values, not national interests
Terence & Camilla, has anyone tested public attitudes to messages around international cooperation to solve common problems (i.e. global public goods) vs messages about aid? I appreciate this would be hard to test - and coming up with compelling messages for the former might be a challenge(!) - but I think it might provide some useful insights into what new narratives may, or may not resonate.
From Dr Amanda H A Watson on Telecommunication and broadcasting regulation in Papua New Guinea – in conversation with the regulator
Thank you for your comment Tess. In fact, your blog post written with Vanuatu’s telecommunication regulator inspired me to commence discussions with NICTA about writing this post.
To learn about the Vanuatu context, check out Tess Newton Cain and Dalsie Baniala’s post at: https://devpolicy.org/telecommunications-regulation-in-vanuatu-in-conversation-with-dalsie-baniala-20160809/
Amanda.
From Nilesh on The end of the golden age
Very interesting take on the current situation and lot of it applies to Indian context as well. With rising Indian middle class the sector seems to growing, however at the same time International NGOs are facing fund crisis and the reason you have rightly communicated is the 'Getting own house in order'. Good read. Sharing it within team.
From Pablo Tuffano on Inequality and immigration in Australia
Inequality is everywhere in the world. Our capitalist system ends up making things even more difficult. Here in Brazil we see much more the difference of classes, and we are even more far from the equality that you there in Australia. I hope we can change our mentality and build a more egalitarian and better world for all.
From Emmanuel Bobola on Telecommunication and broadcasting regulation in Papua New Guinea – in conversation with the regulator
It is interesting that NICTA's focus according to its Act has always been the interest of service providers or carriers. One of the biggest challenges in Papua New Guinea is the protection of consumers. The Papua New Guinea ICCT Act does not regulate the Telecommunication Sector because that Sector is regulated by NICTA through the NICTA Act.
The protection of telecommunication consumers remain a key challenge for NICTA to improve on by bringing in reforms to its Act to ensure consumer rights are protected and consumers are not exploited by telecommunications companies.
I would like to see NICTA redefining CONSUMER in the NICTA Act to include users and telecommunications companies.
NICTA also need to review the long held belief that telephone and Internet penetration in PNG is still below world standards, I disagree, an independent research will find that Internet penetration in PNG has gone up and a starking indication is the huge revenue by telecommunications company on data which has exceeded voice.
From Raymond Yauieb on The Papua New Guinea Election Results Database
Thank you Terence for the analysis and the data base as well. As alluded to by Bal, its definitely a worthwhile tool to have in terms of monitoring and reviewing elections results in PNG.
From Tess Newton Cain on Telecommunication and broadcasting regulation in Papua New Guinea – in conversation with the regulator
Thanks all for this piece, it's an important contribution to our understanding of the relevant issues in this area. It also provides some interesting points of comparison with the work of the OGCIO and TRR in Vanuatu, also captured in the Pacific Conversations series.
From Paul Ronalds on The end of the golden age
Thanks Chris.
I suspect its not the lack of awareness of the need for change that is holding the sector back nor the form the change needs to take (although we might disagree on some of the detail), but the ability to lead impactful change agendas within INGOs.
Many INGOs have diffuse global governance structures and a plethora of stakeholders that make negotiating change difficult. Freeing up resources to invest in new approaches is fiendishly difficult when there are so many competing demands. And there is an overwhelming lack of capacity to manage these complex change processes inside INGOs.
From Tony Milne on Want to sell aid to the Australian public? Look to values, not national interests