Jul 8, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Parke, who takes over the first such portfolio since 1996, is poised to run her non-cabinet office amid much belt-tightening in foreign aid spending in recent years that has led to a two-year delay of the government’s pledge to set aside by 2015 0.5 percent of...
Jul 2, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
In a small note on the AusAid website, the Commonwealth government has confirmed a $47 million project to restore 25,000 hectares of peatland on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan will end before most of its major milestones are met.The Kalimantan project was first...
Jul 1, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, MEDIA RELEASE, PAST CAMPAIGNS
MEDIA RELEASE (For immediate release) AidWatch congratulates Prime Minister Rudd on appointment of a Minister for International Development Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH today, came out in support of the appointment of a Minister...
Jun 27, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Article appeared in Devex By Johanna Morden The bitter power struggle that has gripped Australia’s Labor Party in recent months has ended with a crushing victory for Kevin Rudd, who on Thursday was sworn into his former office as prime minister three years after...
Jun 7, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
STT, a local NGO, has released a report saying dozens of households relocated from Phnom Penh are much worse off, as a result of a badly designed resettlement process.Around 1,000 households either have been or will be relocated nationwide by the $142 million dollar...
Jun 7, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The federal budget shows the foreign aid program is increasingly being used as a slush fund to pay for the government’s political priorities and pet schemes — from sending asylum seekers back home to managing concerns about animal cruelty in...