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Summary and recording of Aid Talks #7 – Where Is Your Aid Money Going?

Dec 30, 2013

The seventh Aid Talks session on ‘Where Is Your Aid Money Going?’ took place on 9 December 2013 in Sydney. Part of the discussion was recorded.

Aid monitor slams East Timor spying charges

Dec 7, 2013

Article appears in Green Left Weekly AID/WATCH has responded to the allegation that Australian government agencies, including AusAID, were involved in spying on the East Timorese cabinet room during sensitive meetings about oil and gas negotiations. AID/WATCH...

Australian aid watchdog outraged about allegations of AusAID involvement in spying

Dec 4, 2013

MEDIA RELEASE Australian aid watchdog outraged about allegations of AusAID involvement in spying For immediate release 4/12/2013 Sydney: AID/WATCH has responded to the allegation that Australian government agencies, including AusAID, were involved in spying on...

Indigenous people, not Australians, should determine Vanuatu’s future

Nov 20, 2013

If Australians want to help the Ni-Vanuatu, they should trust them to determine their own future – and their own land-use laws.

AusAID passes aid transparency exam, just

Oct 28, 2013

Published 25 October 2013Yesterday the transparency advocacy organisation Publish What You Fund released its 2013 Aid Transparency Index. Now in its third year, the index scores and ranks aid providers on the aid information they publish. The index and website feature...

AID/WATCH in the news: Thulsi Narayanasamy on tension between aid and trade

Oct 15, 2013

On the first day of the new Abbott government, it was announced that Australia’s overseas development agency, AusAID, was to be incorporated into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. There has long been a tension between the purported aim of an aid...