Jul 29, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
AusAID’s partial funding of the rehabilitation of a country-wide railway system aligns with its aid strategy in Cambodia. The “Australian- Cambodia Joint Aid Program Strategy 2010- 2015” paper identifies five strategic goals, including to build...
Jul 25, 2013 | CAMPAIGNS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
In return for housing the boat-arriving asylum seekers and resettling those found to be refugees, PNG receives a package of much-needed assistance, that includes redeveloping its universities, a new hospital, upgrading roads, a new courts complex, and the deployment...
Jul 22, 2013 | CAMPAIGNS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, boasted on Monday that he had achieved a ”realignment” of the country’s aid program from Australia as part of the recently negotiated agreement.Australia has spent billions of dollars in...
Jul 17, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
ListenMARK COLVIN: In a big policy shift, the World Bank says it’ll no longer fund coal fired power stations in poor countries.The board of the World Bank has agreed to a new energy strategy which will limit the financing of coal generation except in...
Jul 8, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Parke, who takes over the first such portfolio since 1996, is poised to run her non-cabinet office amid much belt-tightening in foreign aid spending in recent years that has led to a two-year delay of the government’s pledge to set aside by 2015 0.5 percent of...
Jul 2, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
In a small note on the AusAid website, the Commonwealth government has confirmed a $47 million project to restore 25,000 hectares of peatland on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan will end before most of its major milestones are met.The Kalimantan project was first...
