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10 January 2019

What’s more effective in raising support for aid, kindness or the national interest?

by Terence Wood and Chris Hoy

3 January 2019

DP75 Helping us or helping them? What makes aid appeal to Australians?

by Terence Wood and Chris Hoy

5 July 2018

Book review: Why we lie about aid

by Ashlee Betteridge

17 April 2018

On sales pitches and taking the public with you on aid

by Ashlee Betteridge

1 November 2017

DP63 Is support for aid related to beliefs about aid effectiveness in New Zealand?

by Karen Downing

Emergency supplies in Tonga following Cyclone Ian (Louise Scott/DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

31 August 2017

The public and the aid community: comparing views about aid

by Terence Wood and Camilla Burkot

Oxfam staff withdrawn from Malakal violence, South Sudan, 2014 (Grace Cahill/Oxfam/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

25 August 2017

Fortnightly links: evidence-based policy, cholera, aid worker security, and more

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

Guardian Essential poll on budget spending areas (2 May 2017)

2 May 2017

New opinion data on aid spending, and 2017-18 Federal Budget preview

by Camilla Burkot

18 April 2017

What’s your opinion about Australian aid?

by Terence Wood and Camilla Burkot

23 March 2017

Devpolicy Blog Reader Poll: the results

by Camilla Burkot and Stephen Howes

Bags of food aid donated by the Australian Gov't in Harare, Zimbabwe, 23 April 2009 (Flickr/DFAT/AusAID/Kate Holt CC BY 2.0)

23 March 2017

Want to sell aid to the Australian public? Look to values, not national interests

by Terence Wood and Camilla Burkot

Australia arrival stamp (Flickr/Phil Long CC BY-NC 2.0)

15 March 2017

What do Australians think about immigration?

by Henry Sherrell

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