Sep 3, 2008 | IN THE NEWS
Hopes for a progressive agreement to reform international aid look set to be dashed at this week’s aid talks in Accra, Ghana. Delegates to the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness have been at loggerheads for two days with the United States and Japan refusing...
Apr 28, 2008 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Article originally appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald An Australian-led peace mission in the Solomon Islands has created a virtual apartheid by driving up prices in the capital and should be wound down, an academic says. Tim Anderson, who has written a report on...
Oct 5, 2007 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Article originally appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald By Craig Skehan THE Australian Federal Police has confirmed three of its officers trained 20 Burmese police in intelligence gathering, as the international group Aidwatch warned that such co-operation should be...
Aug 3, 2007 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Post appeared on Devex In a new report, Aid Watch revealed that Australian officials used over A$170 million ($146 million) in Iraq aid for Australia’s own gain. “Far from protecting Iraq’s own food security, which was the stated objective of Australia’s aid mission,...
May 28, 2007 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. By Debra Jopson. THE Federal Government has wrongly counted $113 million it is spending on supporting refugees during their first year in Australia as foreign aid, a Sydney-based watchdog says. This has contributed to...
