In 2011 I critiqued in The Australian AusAID’s plans to focus aid on building schools and...
Category - Australian aid
Global Fund round five: Australia keeping up
Over the weekend, leaders and foreign ministers met in Montreal, Canada, for the fifth...
Engaging diasporas in development
Migrant- and refugee-led organisations implement innovative, small-scale, low-cost projects that...
How much tax should backpackers pay?
Farmers are up in arms that the backpackers they rely on to pick their fruit and vegetables will...
Aisyiyah: 99 years of women’s empowerment
The second in our series of Aid Profiles is now online: on Indonesia’s longest...
DFAT and aid communications: how to improve
In the first and second of these posts on aid communications, we looked at what has changed since...
Australian aid communications by the numbers
In the first post in this series looking at aid communications under DFAT, I highlighted the need...
The theatre of development
Given the po-faced way aid, development and NGOs are usually presented to the public, this might...
Will Australia step up in Montreal?
On 16 September 2016 in Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will convene the Fifth...
Does government funding silence Australian NGOs?
Should NGOs take money from the government? It’s one of those long-debated questions of...