The message provides some of the first detail on what the future of AusAID and Australian aid might hold since PM Tony Abbott’s aid reorganisation announcement last month.The principles include a new objective for the aid...
Roger O’Halloran, the chief executive of Palms Australia, said the Australian Volunteers for International Development program ”had got a little bit strangely fat”.By its own account AusAID’s dollar cost for sending volunteers abroad for 12...
The aid monitoring group AidWatch says the Australian government’s decision to reintegrate AusAid into the Department of Foreign Affairs shows alleviating global poverty is not a priority.The newly-elected Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who has planned a AUS$4.5...
This week’s news of AusAID’s integration into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is disappointing though not wholly unexpected. AusAID has always operated with a tension between its often conflicting objectives of the national interest and...
TONY EASTLEY: Aid groups are concerned about the direction of international development assistance under the Abbott Government.AID/WATCH is an independent aid watchdog. Peter Lloyd is speaking here to Matt Hilton, the chairman of its management committee.MATT HILTON:...
MEDIA RELEASE (For immediate release) 18 September 2013 Aid/Watch condemns decision to subsume AusAID into DFAT Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH today, came out in condemnation of reports that the Abbott government will ‘absorb’...
