Labor surprised a lot of people by including aid spending commitments in their budget costings released a week ago. Penny Wong, and indeed the party’s election platform, had foreshadowed that “Labor will increase official development assistance as a percentage of gross national income every year...
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has set itself an ambitious agenda to increase the engagement of Indigenous Australians in the delivery of Australian aid. This is guided by DFAT’s Indigenous peoples strategy, which sets a broad agenda for engaging with both Australian and...
In the forthcoming Australian federal election, now only days away, there are three sharp international development policy differences between the two major parties. They relate to aid, refugees, and climate change. Aid Neither party has talked much about foreign aid. Despite this silence, there...
After six years of aid budget cuts, in late 2018 the Australian government finally connected the role of Australia’s development cooperation efforts to the geostrategic importance of the Pacific region. As proponents of a feminist approach to foreign policy – one which recognises the critical...
The increasing reliance on facilities – large, multi-faceted programs run by consulting or so...
Each year the Australian Government invests $4 billion in Australian aid. On the ground, this...
I have followed with interest the debate around facilities over the past year. The facilities model...
In March 2013, former Liberal Finance Minister Nick Minchin “re-entered the political fray” as The...
Dear Senator Wong, I am writing to you as a former, long-standing public servant who worked mainly...
Recent media revelations about the $423 million contract awarded to a relatively unknown company...
