Australia’s 2020 international development budget is a mass of contradictions. On the one hand...
Category - Australian aid
COVID-19: an opportunity to empower
Globally, we are witnessing a movement making it clear that Black voices demand to be heard, and...
Total aid increased but cruel cuts outside the Pacific
The Coalition did something very unusual in the aid budget last night. It increased foreign aid. It...
Australia leaves Fiji to flounder
Fiji’s fiscal year begins in August, and the government brought down its 2020-21 budget in July...
COVID-19 and violence against children
Lockdowns across the world have pushed people into the privacy of their homes, unintentionally...
Defence and aid: unprecedented divergence
The recent defence spending announcement has put the spotlight on the Australian government’s long...
Australia slashes World Bank funding – falls from 12th to 18th
As one of the World Bank’s five development financing agencies, the International Development...
The futility of aid integration
The UK’s decision to merge the Department for International Development (DFID) with the Foreign and...
Australian aid in five years’ time
In his blog of 4 June, Stephen Howes said that there was “a lot to like” about DFAT’s new...
COVID-19 has not caused a fall in Australians’ support for aid
Have the past few months of economic hardship caused by COVID-19 made Australians more hostile to...