NEWS & EVENTS
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.
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...
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...
AID/WATCH in the news: Disentangling aid, trade, diplomacy and poverty
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...
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....
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...
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...
Comment: Disentangling aid, trade, diplomacy and poverty
Article originally appeared on SBS website. 20th September 2013 Aid should be used to solve poverty, not further Australia's overseas interests. AusAID's merger into DFAT is a blow to be sure, but there have been strings attached to our aid program for far too long,...
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...
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,...
AID/WATCH in the news: Reintegration of AusAID shows global poverty not a priority
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...
AID/WATCH in the news: Aid groups worry about future direction of development assistance
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:...