On Monday, for the third time in fifteen months, the Coalition cut aid spending. While the first...
Category - Australian aid
Biggest aid cuts ever produce our least generous aid budget ever
Today, the Government has announced through its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) the...
A view to Antalya: can the G20’s development agenda be salvaged?
The impetus for the G20’s development agenda, dating right back to the London leaders’ summit in...
Adrift in a Brisbane fog: the G20’s development agenda
What has the G20 done for low-income countries lately? Qua collective, awkwardly little. From a...
Pre-Christmas aid cuts on the horizon?
The NGO and aid community is in battle mode again after an article in the Australian Financial...
“We can’t borrow money from overseas, just to send back overseas...
If it is said enough does it make it true? The Labor Party and the Greens might want us to continue...
Right second time: Australia thaws on the Green Climate Fund
Here’s a large understatement: it cannot have been easy for the government to reverse its decision...
Human Rights Day isn’t what it used to be
Former foreign ministers Bob Carr, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Smith and Alexander Downer have little in...
A puzzling, piddling aid cut: Australian funding for UNEP
Now, shortly after announcing a zero contribution to the UN’s Green Climate Fund (citing...
Senate inquiry to look at aid to PNG
The Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee has announced today that it will...