Oct 15, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
On the first day of the new Abbott government, it was announced that Australia’s overseas development agency, AusAID, was to be incorporated into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. There has long been a tension between the purported aim of an aid...
Oct 9, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The message provides some of the first detail on what the future of AusAID and Australian aid might hold since PM Tony Abbott’s aid reorganisation announcement last month.The principles include a new objective for the aid...
Oct 6, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Roger O’Halloran, the chief executive of Palms Australia, said the Australian Volunteers for International Development program ”had got a little bit strangely fat”.By its own account AusAID’s dollar cost for sending volunteers abroad for 12...
Sep 25, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The aid monitoring group AidWatch says the Australian government’s decision to reintegrate AusAid into the Department of Foreign Affairs shows alleviating global poverty is not a priority.The newly-elected Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who has planned a AUS$4.5...
Sep 24, 2013 | CAMPAIGNS, GENERAL NEWS
Article originally appeared in Crikey 24th September 2013 Tony Abbott is overhauling aid, cutting funding, merging AusAID with DFAT and reorienting spending. Aid expert Thulsi Narayanasamy looks into the changes and what they will mean. By Thulsi Narayanasamy The face...
Sep 20, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
This week’s news of AusAID’s integration into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is disappointing though not wholly unexpected. AusAID has always operated with a tension between its often conflicting objectives of the national interest and...