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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThat $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...
View ArticleNote: 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...
View ArticleAustralia’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...
View ArticleDon’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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