The current OECD Development Assistance Committee peer review of Australia's aid effort takes place at a critical moment, ...

The re-elected Labor Government‘s political capital should be used to improve the quality and measurement of Australia’s aid ...

Reproductive justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children or not have children, and parent children in safe and sustainable communities. In a recent study, I explored ...

Abstract: The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a guestworker program that enables people from Timor Leste and nine Pacific Island countries to work in Australia on temporary visas.

This year has seen massive changes for global development, with the United States, United Kingdom and other donors announcing cuts to foreign assistance. The Development Policy Centre has estimated ...

The Pacific had an unusually high profile in the 2022 Australian election campaign. Labor was able with great effect to challenge the Coalition’s normally strong credentials in the national security ...

Kobi Maglen Kobi Maglen is Director of Program Impact at CBM Australia, delivering disability inclusive technical advice and field programs.

Peter Connolly Pete Connolly is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of New South Wales, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Solomon Islands National University and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for ...

Australian aid The 2025-26 federal budget will see Australian Official Development Assistance (ODA) remain largely steady in real terms at an estimated $5.097 billion in the coming financial year, or ...

Taking a longer-term view, what strikes one is the lack of change in how the aid program is delivered. The next and final graph looks at how aid was delivered in 2010 with how it is delivered today: ...

In the midst of the swift and brutal dismantling of USAID there has been a swell of voices in defence of aid. They have pointed to the good that aid does for the world’s most vulnerable; the ...

As my colleague Cameron Hill has reported, there is considerable confusion as to whether aid to the Compact States is covered by Trump’s executive order to freeze US aid. Legally, it seems as if the ...