True to form, assessments of Julie Bishop’s five-year stint at Foreign Minister, which ended at the...
Category - Australian aid
Drama drama drama: what the new government means for aid
Australia continues to cement itself as the Pacific’s least stable democracy, as it deposed another...
Something strange has been happening to the Australian aid...
In setting out the Australian government’s aid budget for 2018/2019, the Minister for Foreign...
Aid and defence
During the height of the aid boom, back in 2012, my then-colleague Ben Reilly complained that...
The AIIB and Australian participation in Chinese infrastructure...
In recent years, a new challenge has emerged for economic development and integration in the Asia...
Should more Australian aid to the Pacific be spent on...
After decades in the background, infrastructure has become sexy once again. Twelve months ago, just...
iXc: the first four years
iXc (the innovationXchange) was the first major aid initiative of the current Coalition government...
Making the SWP more employer friendly: a work in progress
Last September the Australian Government announced nine measures to improve participation in the...
The time is right for a ‘step-up’ in ABC broadcasting to the...
Broadcasting can touch the heart, inspire the mind and set ideas into action, but in the Pacific it...
Book review: Why we lie about aid
If I had one key piece of advice for anyone diving in to Pablo Yanguas’ Why we lie about aid, it...