What if Australian aid actually looked like solidarity?
This year we are launching our most ambitious integrated campaign yet to connect the dots between Australian aid policy, the critical minerals boom, and the militarisation of our region. And we need your support! DONATE TO OUR EOFY APPEALFor over three decades, AidWatch has been the only independent monitor of Australia’s international aid and development.
Through research, campaigns and advocacy centered in justice and solidarity, AidWatch collaborates with frontline communities and networks to expose Australian foreign policy mechanisms and development aggressions that undermine their lives, lands and waters.
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Australia spent 10x more on defence than aid. Again.
AidWatch was founded on a simple idea: that the people most affected by poverty and injustice should determine the solutions - not donor governments, not corporate contractors, not military strategists. Thirty-plus years later, that idea feels more necessary than...
AidWatch Annual Report
The year 2025 saw the world plunge deeper into a multi-pronged geopolitical crisis, propelled by the dangerous actions of the leaders of global economic powers and the deeply entrenched Western imperialism which supports those actions. We saw a year marked by ongoing...
Militarisation is Extraction: From Mines to Missiles
AidWatch is proud to have contributed to Militarisation is Extraction: From Mines to Missiles, a landmark 2025 position paper by the Yes to Life No to Mining (YLNM) global solidarity network.
AID/WATCH IS A PROUD MEMBER AND REGIONAL CONTACT POINT FOR THE YES TO LIFE NO TO MINING GLOBAL SOLIDARITY NETWORK
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