Since the 1984 Jackson Review, there have been calls for the aid program to improve how it...
Category - Australian aid
Donations, action, or awareness: what do Australian NGOs use the...
Since aid NGOs first set up basic webpages in the late 1990s, the internet has become increasingly...
Demining disaster?
On the evidence available it seems that Australia’s commitment to removing landmines and other...
A new point seven
Once, in happier times, 0.7% was the cornerstone of aid advocacy. It was the target that...
An ODE to success? 10 years of Office of Development...
The Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) within DFAT is this year marking its tenth...
Aid law wars: lawyers v. scandal-mongers
Who knew the dry-seeming topic of aid law would ignite a debate? Jo Spratt — an Australian National...
Restoring land in East Africa for the environment, the economy...
Throughout East Africa immense tracts of farmland, grazing lands and forests have become degraded...
After the election: Australia and the Pacific private sector
Now that the election is over and it is clear that the Coalition government has been returned it is...
Far below what Australians find acceptable (or imaginable?)
When I worked on the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness – five years ago and a world away– I...
The new Senate crossbench and aid
While the outcomes in both houses of Parliament are still at the nail-biting stage after...