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,...
Are you concerned about Australia’s impact on the world? If so, you should tell the Government what you think. The Australian Government is currently calling for public submissions for its Foreign Policy White Paper. If you feel as we do about the direction of...
6 February 2016 | Dear Senator, Reject the failed TPP and ensure fairness in future trade deals, including the RCEP We the undersigned 53 community organisations, representing over two million Australians, call on you to reject the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Since the election of a conservative Government in late 2013 the Australian aid program has been radically transformed. Under the Government’s ‘new aid paradigm’ it is difficult to recognise aid as having a meaningful development mandate beyond promoting the private...
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...
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...