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Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships
- Round 12 is now OPEN. Round 12 will close at 5pm AEST on Wednesday 20 June 2012.
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Aid package welcome to children threatened by food shortages in West Africa but more aid needed to avert humanitarian disaster, warns Save the Children
- Save the Children welcomes the announcement by Minister Carr to increase humanitarian aid to the Sahel region of West Africa where 13 million people are at risk of severe hunger.
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Long Term Afghanistan Aid Commitment Applauded
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Vital aid assistance for Afghanistan
- Prime Minister Gillard today announced an increase in Australian aid to Afghanistan, to support the country’s development and stability.
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Australia responds to escalating food crises in Africa
- Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced today that Australia will contribute an additional $16 million in much needed food and emergency medical assistance to respond to two major escalating crises in Africa.
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Staging the Introduction of Regulatory Reform for the Not-For-Profit Sector
- Not-for-profit sector reforms will be staged to allow organisations to transition to the new regulatory framework, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury announced today.
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ACFID’s Dr Susan Harris Rimmer discusses the Federal Budget with Albion Harrison-Naish from 2ser’s AidWorks
- The final interview from 2ser's coverage of the 2012 federal and aid budgets.
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Access And The G8: Hear Our Voices
- This piece is part of a series of blogs by leading NGOs to call attention to a range of issues that should be raised at the G8 summit at Camp David in rural Maryland from May 18-19.
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Greens Commitment to MDGs Welcomed
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United Nations Rio+20 Summit: Concerns Raised Over Lack Of 'Transformational Change'
- The largest-ever United Nations conference, a summit billed as a historic opportunity to build a greener future, appears to be going up in smoke.
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Coalition Must Release Timetable For Aid Commitment
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Cuts to foreign aid 'could cost 250,000 lives'
- BITTER disappointment at the budget decision to strip back promised foreign aid worth almost $3 billion over the next four years has quickly turned to cynicism within development circles, with experts questioning whether the government's long-promised target has been delayed or doomed.
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Australia’s four year plan to help the world’s poorest
- Former Premier Bob Carr on the issues of today
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Trawling the web for socioeconomic data? Look no further than Knoema
- Presenting Knoema, the innovative and interactive online catalogue of economic, environmental and demographic data
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Regional winners from the 2012 aid budget: Fiji, Burma, Afghanistan and Africa
- The aid budget largely leaves country allocations unchanged, but there are some important exceptions.
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Aid: A Promise Broken
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Goodwill hunting: fears budget may shun world's poor
- BACK in 2005, on a wave of global goodwill, the world embraced a simple but powerful idea. With inspired leadership, debt-forgiveness, generous aid budgets and white wristbands - the last worn by the world's wealthier citizenry to symbolise solidarity and a willingness to endure a bit of hardship for the cause - inequality might finally be conquered.
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Pacific foreign aid in doubt as budget looms
- There are fears foreign aid to Australia's South Pacific neighbours could be in for a chop in next week's budget and experts say that would leave the door open to an ever increasing Chinese influence in the region.
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Prominent Australians Call On PM To Keep Aid Promise
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Prominent Australians Join Campaign To Increase Foreign Aid
- Over 150 prominent Australians including Hugh Jackman, Geoffrey Rush, Jimmy Barnes and the Wiggles have joined forces to ask Prime Minister Gillard to keep the bipartisan promise to increase foreign aid.
