Jul 22, 2013 | CAMPAIGNS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, boasted on Monday that he had achieved a ”realignment” of the country’s aid program from Australia as part of the recently negotiated agreement.Australia has spent billions of dollars in...
Jul 17, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
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...
Jul 8, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
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...
Jul 2, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
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...
Jul 1, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, MEDIA RELEASE, PAST CAMPAIGNS
MEDIA RELEASE (For immediate release) AidWatch congratulates Prime Minister Rudd on appointment of a Minister for International Development Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH today, came out in support of the appointment of a Minister...
Jun 27, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
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...
