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Building coalitions for development: Australia’s turn
Last year both the US and the UK made explicit statements recognising development as a key pillar...
Additional COVID funding postpones aid cuts
Faced with the prospect of another cut to aid while the COVID-19 pandemic continues – and in some...
The ‘Indo-Pacific’ and Australia’s aid program
References to the ‘Indo-Pacific’ are ubiquitous in contemporary policy statements on Australia’s...
Labor on aid: 2022
While Labor has ditched some of the policies that proved unpopular at the last election, it has so...
Australia decides 18th is good enough for IDA
Last month, the World Bank Group’s International Development Association (IDA) released the details...
What happened to Australia’s leadership on disability inclusion...
The second Global Disability Summit, which starts today (16 February 2022), provides a virtual line...
What happened to NGO donations in the first year of COVID-19?
One night, in the middle of the 2020 Australasian Aid Conference, hand sanitister stations sprouted...
The awkward arithmetic of Australia’s climate finance promise
Scott Morrison’s COP26 pledge of $500 million on top of the $1.5 billion promised in 2020, means...
A new era for Australian aid: the ‘cautious consensus’
In the aftermath of the onset of COVID-19, a new political consensus is forming around Australia’s...