Nov 30, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Aid/Watch and Maurice Blackburn lawyers say the decision (Aid/Watch incorporate v Commissioner of Taxation 2010), has enormous implications not just for Aid/Watch but for any charity that seeks to influence government policy in the public interest.The four-year legal...
Nov 22, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, SUPPORT
People & Planet is published by a partnership of 37 Australian social justice and environment organisations, and raises funds for the work of these organisations in promoting a just, sustainable world.Support AID/WATCH by buying a copy of the People & Planet...
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...
