Years ago, I hitchhiked from Weipa, down the Cape York Peninsula to Kuranda, in the hills behind...
Category - Australian aid
COVAX Summit: time for Australia to recommit to global, not just...
Japan will host a landmark COVAX Summit on Wednesday (2 June) to galvanise support for global...
Why New Zealand’s aid budget was better, and worse, than...
COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally. It has overwhelmed health services. It has brought...
Development assistance in the news: don’t mention the aid budget
Kudos to Sky News journalist Kieran Gilbert who, in the follow-up to last week’s budget, put...
Australian aid cuts at odds with changing public opinion
The Development Policy Centre regularly surveys Australians’ views on foreign aid. We ran our most...
Government cuts aid in the middle of the pandemic
Yesterday, I set down on Twitter three tests by which I said I would judge Australia’s 2021-22 aid...
Australia hits (almost) rock bottom in new global aid rankings
New OECD aid data for 2020, from the organisation’s Development Assistance Committee or DAC, shows...
What guides Australian NGOs: need or the national interest?
If you’re an aid NGO, government money is tempting. It affords the chance to help more people, or...
Do Australian NGOs work in too many countries?
In a recent blog I argued that the Australian government gives aid to too many countries. It was an...
Should Australia give aid to so many countries?
As my coauthors and I explained in our recent report on aid flows, the Australian government...