Nov 23, 2008 | IN THE NEWS
PACER itself is a product of John Howard’s unapologetic interventionism in the Pacific – and the Liberal government’s attempts to reshape political and economic decision-making in the region, with an orientation towards ‘regional integration,...
Nov 18, 2008 | IN THE NEWS
Labour mobility may be in the headlines but when Kevin Rudd stepped off the plane in Niue for the Pacific Island Leaders forum this week, he had just one thing on his mind: markets. And not the colourful Pacific handicraft kind.Allowing Pacific workers to plug the...
Nov 18, 2008 | IN THE NEWS
The new government’s pledged aid budget increase is a significant win for civil society campaigners and has rightly been celebrated as such. Australia has avoided meeting the pledged allocation of 0.7 per cent of GDP to overseas development assistance for too...
Nov 18, 2008 | IN THE NEWS
A major review of the $3 billion Australian aid program, the first of its kind ever conducted, was tabled in Parliament last Thursday at 4.30pm, one hour before most of Canberra departed for the four-day long weekend.If it weren’t for the 11th hour timing, the...
