The 2014 DFAT evaluation of the International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC) contains a...
Category - Australian aid
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre wins 2018 Mitchell Humanitarian Award
The 2018 Mitchell Humanitarian Award was presented to the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in a ceremony...
Memo to DFAT: fund vaccines
In 2017, DFAT announced $75 million funding for development of new drugs and diagnostics for TB and...
Aid evaluations: an integration success story
In November 2016, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) released a new aid evaluation...
Book review: Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma
Corbett, J 2017, Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian aspirations confront democratic...
Improving the omelette: the case for a Deputy Secretary for...
Labor has ruled out recreating AusAID to run Australian aid. According to Shadow Foreign Minister...
The upside of the China-Pacific-aid controversy
Minister for International Development and the Pacific Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has won...
Fixing Australia’s global health R&D mess
In my last two blogs, I looked at DFAT’s growing contribution to the global effort to create new...
Labor for Aid: how much will it cost?
A new campaign seeks to write a positive aid policy into the Australian Labor Party (ALP) national...
Gabrielle Persley: bridging bioscience and development
Queenslander Gabrielle Persley’s career has seen her work with the world’s leading...