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Australian aid Pacific & PNG Pacific migration Asian & global development

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

4 May 2016

Scaled down. The last of the aid cuts?

by Stephen Howes

Figure 1: DFAT country and regional allocations

4 May 2016

Continuity with change: country allocations in the 2016-17 budget

by Matthew Dornan

19 May 2015

The mysterious case of the vanishing budget emergency

by Anthony Swan

16 May 2015

Beyond country programs in the 2015-16 aid budget: losers, non-losers, and a winner

by Jonathan Pryke, Camilla Burkot and Stephen Howes

12 May 2015

Australian aid: the way we were

by Stephen Howes

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