The inaugural Mitchell Humanitarian Award was presented to veterinarian and Sydney University...
Category - Australian non-government aid
The gender woes of Australian NGOs
Australian aid NGOs have a male leadership problem. The problem isn’t that there are men...
Australia’s contractors in international philanthropy: missing...
It will be essential for all development actors to contribute to achieving the Sustainable...
Bill Armstrong: volunteering with attitude
For generations of young Australians with a passion for social justice, volunteering in developing...
Support for ODA and donations to NGOs (previous paper replaced)
In 2014, Alexandra Humphrey Cifuentes, Jonathan Pryke and I published the Devpolicy Discussion...
Why should Australia care about ending polio?
Every year, two to three million deaths are prevented thanks to life-saving vaccines. Childhood...
Australian development NGOs: the future is fragmented
On a recent episode of ABC’s Gruen, a panel show looking at marketing and advertising, the...
Engaging diasporas in development
Migrant- and refugee-led organisations implement innovative, small-scale, low-cost projects that...
The theatre of development
Given the po-faced way aid, development and NGOs are usually presented to the public, this might...
Does government funding silence Australian NGOs?
Should NGOs take money from the government? It’s one of those long-debated questions of...