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Aid effectiveness and the scale-up: the price of asylum-seeker cost shifting

On Monday, Foreign Minister Carr confirmed that the Government will be cutting $375 million from its budgeted aid expenditure this year in order to finance costs associated with asylum seekers from the...

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How Australia’s aid program is helping to pay the asylum-seeker bill

Six weeks after Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced that $375 million would be reallocated within the Australian aid program to finance asylum-seeker costs, AusAID has released (pdf, p. 102 onward) its...

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That $375 million for asylum seekers: where will it go?

On Monday 11 February, during Senate Estimates hearings, Senator Michaelia Cash asked the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) a question that we have been asking ourselves, and trying in...

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Note: Asylum-seeker costs—wrong questions, wrong people

In the course of last week’s Additional Estimates hearings, senators directed quite a few questions to both DIAC and AusAID on the question that Jonathan Pryke and I discussed in our post of 14...

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Australia’s 2013 aid budget: third time disappointed or the third largest...

Last year in the budget, the Government disappointed aid supporters by delaying its 0.5% of Gross National Income (GNI) target by a year – now it is to be achieved in 2016-17 rather than 2015-16 (see...

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Don’t keep the change: an update on the asylum-seeker levy on Australia’s aid...

For a while there, it looked like the Australian aid program wasn’t financing onshore asylum-seeker costs on any principled basis.  It appeared the aid program was effectively paying an...

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