Nov 17, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Kalimantan is part of Indonesia which is one of the world’s largest carbon emitters because of logging, forest fires and the drying out of peat swamps.During his recent trip to the country, US president Barack Obama promised $700 million for climate change and...
Nov 17, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The Federal Government has just announced the review saying it wants to make sure it’s getting the most out of every aid dollar. NGOs say that to do so it should consider decoupling AusAID from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.Meredith Griffiths...
Nov 17, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Australia’s aid budget has doubled in recent years and is set to double again in the next five years.Canberra was warned by its own Treasury in recently released documents that simply scaling up existing aid activities won’t deliver value for money …...
Nov 2, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
The Australian government has announced it will phase out more than a third of its advisor positions in East Timor over the next two years. AusAID will cut 29 of its 82 advisor positions in East Timor. The move follows similar cuts for Papua New Guinea and is part of...
Oct 18, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
The Australian Foreign Minister’s advised his Papua New Guinea counterpart that the number of aid advisers to PNG will be cut by more than a third over the next two years.PNG receives over 450 million US dollars a year in aid funding, almost half of which goes...
Oct 14, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Australia will slash the number of technical advisors to Papua New Guinea by a third in an attempt to eliminate wastage. Australia’s foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, confirmed the cuts as part of a plan to drastically overhaul its $457 million PNG aid program. The...