Australia’s aid spending of approximately $4.3 billion for 2010-11 currently sits at 0.33% of the Gross National Income (GNI).[1]
Whilst both the major political parties have made a commitment to increase the aid budget to 0.5% of GNI by 2015, this still falls short of the internationally agreed target of 0.7%.
Some of the larger country and region recipients for 2008-11
Further reading on Australia’s aid to the Pacific:
Articles from AID/WATCH website
- Moratorium needed on Pacific trade talks, warn Pacific Civil Society Organisations*
- Pacific Islands Trade: a year’s worth of bad outcomes
- Public forum in Sydney on Australian aid to Pacific
- We are the Pacific’s Best Frenemy
- Masking false assumptions in Australia’s aid delivery
- PNG Aid Money Wasted*
- Foreign Aid Spending*
- More pressure on Australia’s aid program*
- Concerns over land reform policies in Melanesia*
- Aid workers earning more than Rudd
- Australia Talks – Overseas Aid*
- Australian Overseas Development Assistance and the Rural Poor
- Our Aid Dollars Not Reaching Those In Need
- Take the pace out of PACER
- ‘Little to be seen’ for Timor aid
- Australian foreign aid to East Timor ‘wasted’*
- Australia’s ‘boomerang aid’ slammed*
- Defence deal alarms aid workers*
- Australia’s Defence Dept and aid agency AUSAID sign agreement*
- Concerns Laos-Australia aid being ‘corporatised’*
- Is Australia Genuine About a ‘New Approach’ to the Pacific?
- When tax-free salaries count as aid*
*Articles that mention AID/WATCH
[1] AusAid, 2010-11 Budget
Last updated: 12 November 2010