May 31, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Australia’s 400 million dollar aid program in Papua New Guinea is under fire after an independent review found half the money is being spent on private companies and consultants, rather than community projects.The inquiry reported that some consultants were paid...
May 31, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
‘According to reports this week half of our foreign aid to Papua New Guinea is spent on consultancies and training.Critics say more of this money needs to go to providing goods and services. But others claim consultants provide critical capacity building...
May 31, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
On a number of levels I find the “valuing” of work in this way obscene. We don’t value, and therefore remunerate, community and family care for children, differently abled, older people, and many others in our community, or indeed in PNG, in a...
May 24, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Speakers: Stephen Smith, Australia’s Foreign minister; Dr James Goodman, spokesman, Aidwatch; Julie Bishop, Australia’s Opposition Foreign Affairs spokeswoman. MOTTRAM: Twelve million dollars to research the giant panda in China .. 13-Million to...
May 19, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
On Sunday night, SBS’s Dateline ran a feature story about PNG LNG, Papua New Guinea’s $16.6 billion liquefied natural gas development project, the biggest development project in the history of the Pacific region. ExxonMobil, with its Aussie partners Oil...
May 15, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
With the Millennium Development Goals slipping from the grasp of donor countries and fragile states, a big effort is being made to bring together all parties involved so they can thrash out why billions of dollars in aid money hasn’t yielded the expected...
