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Category - Australian aid
March 2023 aid news
Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on...
Development, dams and dilemmas: revisiting Cold War aid
Sitting on my shelves is a book entitled Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World, authored by...
Confessions of an adviser
Gordon Peake’s marvellous new book Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation is based on the four years he spent...
A better Australian statecraft for development policy
The Australian government has declared it will establish an integrated approach to development. An...
Using aid to shift power paradigms in the Pacific
“It’s the leadership, stupid.” This well-worn variation on Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 campaign...
Expert views on Australia’s new aid strategy
When security experts are offering advice to the Australian government on how to do development in...
February 2023 aid news
Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on...
Should Australia slash its multilateral aid?
I was in the midst of a Monday afternoon recently when a flurry of agitated emails barged into my...
Pitch perfect: big problems, clear solutions
Give an aid and development practitioner three minutes and they’ll be able to tell you in detail...