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Category - Australian aid
Red Cross no longer sending AVID volunteers
The Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) program is not just shedding...
Innovation in development… is it worth the hype?
Readers of this blog will be all too familiar with the Government’s $1bn cut to aid for 2015-16. In...
A big week for Pacific labour mobility: SWP reforms and the...
This post continues my analysis of reforms to Pacific labour mobility announced last week in the...
A big week for Pacific labour mobility: backpacker reforms
Last week was a big one for Australian policy on Pacific labour mobility, with the release of the...
Health sector first casualty of Myanmar aid cuts
It is not easy to identify from the Coalition Government’s 2015 budget papers where the brunt of...
The development of northern Australia: a little aid, and more...
Early in 2013, it seemed that northern Australia might become a major beneficiary of Australia’s...
Parliamentary inquiry to focus on Seasonal Worker Program
A parliamentary inquiry is being held into the Pacific Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) by the Joint...
Australia’s stance on corruption – will all roads lead to Nauru...
The allegations report in the Australian media of an Australian mining company bribing high ranking...
Not just another day… World Day Against Child Labour
Today, Friday 12 June, is World Day Against Child Labour. It’s easy to see why these ‘days’...