NEWS & EVENTS

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...

In the lead up to the federal election in Australia, both political parties see a role for foreign aid but neither can commit to reaching normative targets. Recently, the Labor government , under new prime minister Kevin Rudd, deferred Australia's commitment to aid as...

PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill revealed for the first time the cost of the projects and the extra aid money to be provided by Australia.The key elements of the aid-for-asylum-seeker deal, which Mr O'Neill signed with his Australian counterpart in Brisbane two...

AusAID’s partial funding of the rehabilitation of a country-wide railway system aligns with its aid strategy in Cambodia. The “Australian- Cambodia Joint Aid Program Strategy 2010- 2015” paper  identifies five strategic goals, including to build...

ListenMARK COLVIN: In a big policy shift, the World Bank says it'll no longer fund coal fired power stations in poor countries.The board of the World Bank has agreed to a new energy strategy which will limit the financing of coal generation except in 'rare'...

Parke, who takes over the first such portfolio since 1996, is poised to run her non-cabinet office amid much belt-tightening in foreign aid spending in recent years that has led to a two-year delay of the government’s pledge to set aside by 2015 0.5 percent of...

In a small note on the AusAid website, the Commonwealth government has confirmed a $47 million project to restore 25,000 hectares of peatland on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan will end before most of its major milestones are met.The Kalimantan project was first...

Article appeared in Devex By Johanna Morden The bitter power struggle that has gripped Australia’s Labor Party in recent months has ended with a crushing victory for Kevin Rudd, who on Thursday was sworn into his former office as prime minister three years after...

STT, a local NGO, has released a report saying dozens of households relocated from Phnom Penh are much worse off, as a result of a badly designed resettlement process.Around 1,000 households either have been or will be relocated nationwide by the $142 million dollar...

The federal budget shows the foreign aid program is increasingly being used as a slush fund to pay for the government’s political priorities and pet schemes — from sending asylum seekers back home to managing concerns about animal cruelty in...