Australian Development Assistance

On Tuesday 11 October 2011, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Mr Peter Baxter, Director General of AusAID, discussed Australia's aid program and the critical role of development aid in an increasingly interconnected global community. Mr Baxter answered the critics of the

At the Lowy Lecture Series on 20 July, a high-level panel, with Sandy Hollway AO, Jack De Groot and Rowan Callick, considered how well Australia's aid program is placed to respond to evolving development challenges. Annmaree O'Keeffe, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute, chaired the discussion

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Annmaree O'Keeffe takes a critical look at the winners and losers in last week’s increased foreign aid budget. While supporting the government’s commitment to increase the aid budget, she asks where is the strategy to guide

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 25 May, Sir Richard Feachem summarised the history of aid over the past 60 years, the evidence on aid effectiveness, and the current controversies surrounding aid. Sir Richard proposed some building blocks for a new aid model, more suited to the geopolitical and

The scale of public health challenges in Papua New Guinea heightens the need to improve management capacity and ensure value for money. Proposed changes to health facility financing and plans to replace drug supply system open up possibilities for wider use of delivery mechanisms previously

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Annmaree O'Keeffe writes that Australian aid dollars are reaching a greater range of countries around the world.The Australian, 20 September 2010, p. 10

Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed. Asia is generally progressing well while the Pacific is lagging behind, and in several cases countries are in fact regressing. Since the signing of the Millennium Declaration in 2000 there has been a lot of

The Institute was pleased to host an address by Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme, on 12 February.In recent times, the challenges of the developing world are compounded by multiple crises: the food and fuel crises, the global recession, climatic events, and devastating

The Lowy Institute and CARE Australia convened a conference in Sydney on 14 May 2009 on tackling extreme poverty in Papua New Guinea. The conference brought together politicians, government officials, academics, private sector and non-government experts to explore ways of improving the situation of

In an opinion piece in The Canberra Times, Jenny Hayward-Jones, Director of The Myer Foundation Melanesia Program at the Lowy Institute, argues for bold initiatives in the delivery of Australian aid to the Pacific region. Canberra Times, 25 September 2008, p. 19

On 27 June, at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Abby McLeod discussed how, on 30 June, Papua New Guinea goes to the polls after the Sir Michael Somare government became the first government in PNG history to serve its first term. Australia, as PNG's largest source of aid and its former colonial power

Papua New Guinea's failing experiment with democracy needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, writes Ben Scott.The Age, 3 January 2006, p. 9A Lowy Institute Paper by Ben Scott, entitled Re-imagining PNG: Culture, Democracy and Australia's Role, is also available

Dr Michael Fullilove and Professor Warwick McKibbin of the Lowy Institute argue there are strategic, economic and moral reasons for Australia to do more in the fight against extreme poverty. The Australian, 1 July 2005, p. 17

Australia must try again with Port Moresby, writes Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White. But it should offer help, not impose it. Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2005, p. 17 

The Australian government's unprecedented $1 billion response to Indonesia's tsunami recovery more than doubled Australian aid to Indonesia. It enhanced the role of aid in Australia-Indonesia relations and put new strains on Australia's aid program in Indonesia. Geoff Forrester's paper in the