O’Neill brags of closer grip on aid after refugee deal

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...

Australian-Indonesian carbon project abandoned

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...

Rudd ousts Gillard: A ‘game changer’ for Australian aid?

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...