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16 March 2026

PNG’s GST since 2017: good for provinces, bad for national government

by Maholopa Laveil

26 March 2025

2025 Australian aid update

by Stephen Howes

15 May 2024

2024 Australian aid spending and effectiveness update

by Stephen Howes

10 May 2023

Labor promises not to cut aid

by Stephen Howes, Cameron Hill and Huiyuan Liu

Treasurer of Australia, Hon Dr Jim Chalmers

26 October 2022

Labor reduces but does not eliminate Coalition aid cuts

by Cameron Hill, Stephen Howes and Huiyuan Liu

2021 aid budget

12 May 2021

Government cuts aid in the middle of the pandemic

by Stephen Howes

Relief supplies for Solomon Islands

7 October 2020

Total aid increased but cruel cuts outside the Pacific

by Stephen Howes

Australian PM (right) and Treasurer (left) (Credit: ABC News/Nick Haggarty)

3 April 2019

An incoherent aid budget

by Stephen Howes

Australian aid takes a tumble (Relief supplies for Solomon Islands, 2014/DFAT/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

9 May 2018

When will we stop cutting aid?

by Matthew Dornan and Stephen Howes

Jacqui de Lacy at 2017 Aid Budget Breakfast

19 May 2017

Aid, deep thinking, and national security

by Jacqui de Lacy

Close Nature Insect Wasp Macro Animals

9 May 2017

A small target budget with a sting in the tail

by Stephen Howes

Share of total government expenditure

5 May 2016

The budget repair that wasn’t: implications for the aid budget

by Anthony Swan

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