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Pacific Aid from Australia protected for now
AidWatch’s Thulsi Narayanasamy speaks to Radio New Zealand about cuts to Australia’s aid programme and the lack of transparency since the aid programme has been integrated into the Foreign Affairs Department.
AidWorks 23rd April 2014. A panel discussion on the role of the national interest in aid programs
Why do nations give aid? Is it to help alleviate poverty, or to show goodwill to those less fortunate? Is it to increase global peace and security or as a way of influencing the nations receiving aid? There are a multitude of reasons that influence both why and how...
Australian government cuts foreign aid budget
Thulsi Narayanasamy, Director of AidWatch, talks to radio RRR FM about Australia’s foreign aid policy and recently announced cuts to the foreign aid budget.
Aid/Watch’s Matt Hilton ADB’s report into Cambodian rail repair project
AidWatch talks to radio 2SER about a scathing report into the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that has found its $143 million project to repair Cambodia’s rail system has left hundreds of impoverished families worse off.
Australian aid watchdog concerned about DFAT back-flip on aid to Grenada
MEDIA RELEASE 14 -2-14 Australian aid watchdog concerned about DFAT back-flip on aid to Grenada AID/WATCH supports the Government of Grenada making a diplomatic protest on the reneging of Australian aid funding committed to rebuild a new parliament building on the...
Australian aid watchdog calls on the Australian responsibility negligence Cambodia Railways Project
MEDIA RELEASE 10-2-14 Australian aid watchdog calls on the Australian responsibility negligence Cambodia Railways Project SYDNEY: Aid/Watch has welcomed the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) admission...
Summary and recording of Aid Talks #7 – Where Is Your Aid Money Going?
The seventh Aid Talks session on ‘Where Is Your Aid Money Going?’ took place on 9 December 2013 in Sydney. Part of the discussion was recorded.
Aid monitor slams East Timor spying charges
Article appears in Green Left Weekly AID/WATCH has responded to the allegation that Australian government agencies, including AusAID, were involved in spying on the East Timorese cabinet room during sensitive meetings about oil and gas negotiations. AID/WATCH...
Australian aid watchdog outraged about allegations of AusAID involvement in spying
MEDIA RELEASE Australian aid watchdog outraged about allegations of AusAID involvement in spying For immediate release 4/12/2013 Sydney: AID/WATCH has responded to the allegation that Australian government agencies, including AusAID, were involved in spying on...
Australian NGOs join Malaysian anti-Lynas camp-out in Sydney
Article originally appeared in The Malay Mail Online KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — Several Australian non-government organisations (NGO) today joined 16 Malaysian delegates in their protest outside Lynas Corporations’ shareholders meeting in Sydney, urging shareholders to...
Indigenous people, not Australians, should determine Vanuatu’s future
If Australians want to help the Ni-Vanuatu, they should trust them to determine their own future – and their own land-use laws.
2014 People & Planet Diaries, Calendars and Cards
The gorgeous 2014 People & Planet Diaries, Calendars and Cards are on sale now. Both the Diary and Calendar feature extraordinary images of people and places around the world and include Australian holidays and UN and other social and environmental justice dates....
AusAID passes aid transparency exam, just
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...
Audio recording of Aid Talks #6 – Trading Away Futures: Trade, Aid and Development
Aid, trade and development are intimately linked. Aid has often facilitated a trade liberalisation agenda with free trade seen as a path to economic growth and development. However, free trade arrangements force developing countries to open up their economies to goods...
Audio recording – Aid Talks #5 Aiding Profits: The Corporatisation of Aid
A major concern with the Australian aid program is that it favours commercial interests in aid delivery. The commercialisation of aid often results in ‘boomerang aid’ – where aid ends up funding private Australian companies, consultants, advisors, and goods and...
AID/WATCH in the news: Thulsi Narayanasamy on tension between aid and trade
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,...
Principles released for AusAID
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...
AusAID under fire for cost of volunteers
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...