by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | Campaign areas, In the news, Land is life, Stories
AidWatch’s new publication GRAUN NA GUTPELA SINDAUN LONG PAPUA NUIGINI is a shortened and adapted version of Australian academic Tim Anderson’s Land & Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea book. Translated in Tok Pisin for Papua New Guinean communities the...
by admin | Jun 27, 2017 | Announcments, In the news, Stories
We are not even six months into 2017, but we have already seen much that is of concern in the direction of Australia’s aid program and policies. In the budget in May, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) announced a 22% cut to support for multilateral...
by admin | Feb 28, 2017 | feature, In the news, Media release
AID/WATCH, an independent watchdog on aid and trade, has today written to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop calling for transparency over the level of funding being provided to the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum to be held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea,...
by admin | May 7, 2016 | Announcments, In the news
The 2016 AID/WATCH Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 27 May 2016, 5.30pm-7.30pm, upstairs at the Loft Bar, at the University of Technology Sydney. The Loft is off Broadway, near the UTS Tower, and is an accessible venue -http://theloftuts.com.au. Food and...
by admin | Apr 15, 2016 | Aid under DFAT, In the news, Stories
A Publish What You Fund report on aid transparency has ranked Australia 25 out of 46 major aid donors in meeting transparency standards agreed to at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in 2011, scoring less than 50% on the index. The report...
by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | In the news, Stories, Trade/Watch
Originally published in New Matilda on 18 November 2015. https://newmatilda.com/2015/11/18/worried-about-the-tpp-australia-is-pushing-another-bad-deal/. By Thulsi Narayanasamy. Despite receiving little attention in Australia, efforts to establish a new regional...
