Nov 2, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
The Australian government has announced it will phase out more than a third of its advisor positions in East Timor over the next two years. AusAID will cut 29 of its 82 advisor positions in East Timor. The move follows similar cuts for Papua New Guinea and is part of...
Nov 1, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
On a hot May afternoon, Cambodian sister and brother Hut Heap and Hut Hoeub left their makeshift family home to search for fresh water.They never returned. Hours later, the bodies of the 13-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother were found at the bottom of an...
Oct 18, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
The Australian Foreign Minister’s advised his Papua New Guinea counterpart that the number of aid advisers to PNG will be cut by more than a third over the next two years.PNG receives over 450 million US dollars a year in aid funding, almost half of which goes...
Oct 14, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Australia will slash the number of technical advisors to Papua New Guinea by a third in an attempt to eliminate wastage. Australia’s foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, confirmed the cuts as part of a plan to drastically overhaul its $457 million PNG aid program. The...
Oct 14, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said on Thursday he had advised his PNG counterpart Sam Abal of the government’s decision to make big cuts in the ranks of the 487 Australian advisers working on PNG aid.He said a review of the PNG-Australia Development Cooperation...
Oct 13, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
The aid agency has called on the UN Climate Change Summit, in Cancun, in December, to create a Global Climate Fund for vulnerable populations in poor countries.At a crucial lead-up meeting in Tianjin China over the weekend, there was some progress towards a Climate...
