Extent of cuts to Australian aid to the Pacific unknown - CathNews New Zealand

Extent of cuts to Australian aid to the Pacific unknown

Friday, May 16th, 2014

Aid groups say the 2014 Australian Budget amounts to a broken election promise to the world’s poorest people.

The Foreign Aid budget will be cut by 7.9 Billion dollars over five year

Extent of cuts to Australian aid to the Pacific unknown

Archie Law, executive director, ActionAid Australia says Australia is “not one of the world’s least generous donors, because they’re coming from a pretty good place, where the aid budget has been built up with bipartisan support over the last 7 or 8 years”

“But they’ve done a pretty good job at knocking us back a few pegs and the plans that they’ve outlined as far as the 7.9 Billion dollar cuts over five years will certainly send Australia hurtling towards the lower echelons of aid givers in the world.” Continue reading

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