NEWS & EVENTS

If Australians want to help the Ni-Vanuatu, they should trust them to determine their own future – and their own land-use laws.

Published 25 October 2013Yesterday the transparency advocacy organisation Publish What You Fund released its 2013 Aid Transparency Index. Now in its third year, the index scores and ranks aid providers on the aid information they publish. The index and website feature...

On the first day of the new Abbott government, it was announced that Australia's overseas development agency, AusAID, was to be incorporated into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. There has long been a tension between the purported aim of an aid agency,...

The message provides some of the first detail on what the future of AusAID and Australian aid might hold since PM Tony Abbott’s aid reorganisation announcement last month.The principles include a new objective for the aid...

Roger O'Halloran, the chief executive of Palms Australia, said the Australian Volunteers for International Development program ''had got a little bit strangely fat''.By its own account AusAID's dollar cost for sending volunteers abroad for 12 months has more than...

The aid monitoring group AidWatch says the Australian government's decision to reintegrate AusAid into the Department of Foreign Affairs shows alleviating global poverty is not a priority.The newly-elected Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who has planned a AUS$4.5 billion...

This week’s news of AusAID’s integration into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is disappointing though not wholly unexpected. AusAID has always operated with a tension between its often conflicting objectives of the national interest and...

TONY EASTLEY: Aid groups are concerned about the direction of international development assistance under the Abbott Government.AID/WATCH is an independent aid watchdog. Peter Lloyd is speaking here to Matt Hilton, the chairman of its management committee.MATT HILTON:...

I couldn’t believe my ears. I was in Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, in 2012 and a local Oxfam employee told me that he wished Australia would again take control of his country. He argued that in the nearly four decades since independence, the...

They were the $600,000 worth of Australian taxpayer-funded projects that were supposed to change the lives of poor villagers living along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.But according to veteran Kokoda Track trekking company operator Charlie Lynn, the Sustainable...