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Category - Australian aid
Food with justice: informality, exploitation and the SWP
To use an appropriately agricultural metaphor, 2018 was a bumper year for the Australian Seasonal...
Making the AIFFP work for gender equality
Last week marked the commencement of the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the...
Why Australian aid should prioritise children
Nearly thirty years ago, on 20 November 1989, world leaders gathered at the United Nations to make...
Three questions about Australia’s infrastructure promise...
If you’ve ever driven from Honiara out to the places where the roads are finally, fatally...
Australia and New Zealand, a tale of two aid budgets
If you’re going to ignore international norms, it’s always easier if someone else is...
What’s missing in the facilities debate
Both facilities themselves and debates on their effectiveness have proliferated in recent years...
Launch of the Development Studies Association of Australia
For those of us in the development sector in Australia, this has been a long time coming. The UK...
Aid and the Pacific in the Coalition’s third term
Aid hardly rated a mention during the 2019 Australian election campaign. Penny Wong talked about...
Aid and regional Australia
One little-noted irony of the 2019 election is that it was only for the fiercely xenophobic right...