Interview appeared on ABC AM Program 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...
I couldn’t believe my ears. I was in Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, in 2012 and a local Oxfam employee told me that he wished Australia would again take control of his country. He argued that in the nearly four decades since independence,...
They were the $600,000 worth of Australian taxpayer-funded projects that were supposed to change the lives of poor villagers living along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.But according to veteran Kokoda Track trekking company operator Charlie Lynn, the Sustainable...
In the lead up to the federal election in Australia, both political parties see a role for foreign aid but neither can commit to reaching normative targets. Recently, the Labor government , under new prime minister Kevin Rudd, deferred Australia’s commitment to...
PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill revealed for the first time the cost of the projects and the extra aid money to be provided by Australia.The key elements of the aid-for-asylum-seeker deal, which Mr O’Neill signed with his Australian counterpart in...
AusAID’s partial funding of the rehabilitation of a country-wide railway system aligns with its aid strategy in Cambodia. The “Australian- Cambodia Joint Aid Program Strategy 2010- 2015” paper identifies five strategic goals, including to build...
