Nov 20, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
If Australians want to help the Ni-Vanuatu, they should trust them to determine their own future – and their own land-use laws.
Nov 4, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
The gorgeous 2014 People & Planet Diaries, Calendars and Cards are on sale now. Both the Diary and Calendar feature extraordinary images of people and places around the world and include Australian holidays and UN and other social and environmental justice dates....
Oct 28, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Published 25 October 2013Yesterday the transparency advocacy organisation Publish What You Fund released its 2013 Aid Transparency Index. Now in its third year, the index scores and ranks aid providers on the aid information they publish. The index and website feature...
Oct 23, 2013 | EVENTS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Aid, trade and development are intimately linked. Aid has often facilitated a trade liberalisation agenda with free trade seen as a path to economic growth and development. However, free trade arrangements force developing countries to open up their economies to goods...
Oct 15, 2013 | EVENTS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
A major concern with the Australian aid program is that it favours commercial interests in aid delivery. The commercialisation of aid often results in ‘boomerang aid’ – where aid ends up funding private Australian companies, consultants, advisors, and goods and...
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...
