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 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...
Sep 20, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Article originally appeared on SBS website. 20th September 2013 Aid should be used to solve poverty, not further Australia’s overseas interests. AusAID’s merger into DFAT is a blow to be sure, but there have been strings attached to our aid program for far...
Sep 18, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
TONY EASTLEY: Aid groups are concerned about the direction of international development assistance under the Abbott Government.AID/WATCH is an independent aid watchdog. Peter Lloyd is speaking here to Matt Hilton, the chairman of its management committee.MATT HILTON:...
