AUSTRALIA’S foreign aid agency and the Department of Defence will share intelligence under a new agreement non-government groups fear could put aid workers at risk by blurring the distinction between development assistance and military operations.The deal aims...
LINDA MOTTRAM: Eight years ago, wandering British backpacker Lee Sheridan landed in Laos and, as sometimes happens with backpackers, he never left. Now he’s the general manager of the Laos franchise of business support company Teamworkz, employing a small group...
In October 2006 the ATO disqualified AID/WATCH as a charitable organisation. AID/WATCH appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and in July 2008 the AAT President, Justice Downes, overturned the ATO’s decision and reinstated AID/WATCH’s...
Article originally appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald An Australian-led peace mission in the Solomon Islands has created a virtual apartheid by driving up prices in the capital and should be wound down, an academic says. Tim Anderson, who has written a report on...
