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...
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...
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:...
MEDIA RELEASE (For immediate release) 18 September 2013 Aid/Watch condemns decision to subsume AusAID into DFAT Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH today, came out in condemnation of reports that the Abbott government will ‘absorb’...
Interview appeared on ABC AM Program 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...
I couldn’t believe my ears. I was in Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, in 2012 and a local Oxfam employee told me that he wished Australia would again take control of his country. He argued that in the nearly four decades since independence,...
