Coalition should step up foreign aid budget – Letter to Editor of ‘Australian Financial Review’
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Labor Party commits to increasing the aid budget
RESULTS Australia were very happy to learn about the commitment the Australian Labor Party made to increase the aid budget at their Conference earlier this week. The resolution passed (copied in full below) commits the Labor Party to increasing the overseas aid program each year should they gain office, with...
Federal Government puts money behind Pacific Infrastructure, but it’s not enough – Media Release
Media Release Monday December 17, 2018 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PUTS MONEY BEHIND PACIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH The Australian Government confirmed in its 2018 Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) today that they will establish the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific through a $1.5 billion loan...
What is the future of funding into TB R&D?
By Shiva Shreshta, RESULTS Global Health Campaign Manager In September 2018, the global tuberculosis (TB) movement had its most important political moment in recent history, when country leaders and Ministers addressed the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on tuberculosis (TB) in New York. The meeting was a critical moment...
World AIDS Day 2018
By Amelia Christie, RESULTS CEO World AIDS Day 2018 provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress we have made in HIV. However, the UNAIDS theme for this year ‘know your status’, also reminds us how interlinked HIV and tuberculosis are. Those with tuberculosis (or TB as it’s more commonly known)...
Follow-up to the UN High Level Meeting…
The Australian TB Caucus met this week in Canberra to discuss the historic United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on tuberculosis (TB), held in September 2018 in New York, where Senator the Hon Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, reaffirmed Australia’s support to the global fight against TB. Key Targets of the...
RESULTS Australia welcomes amendments to Bill
Passing of new Bill RESULTS Australia welcomes the passing of an amended Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform Bill through the House of Representatives this week. We are pleased to see a much more sensible Bill get bipartisan support. The willingness of all parties to work to improve the Bill recognises...
Inadequate nutrition – cause and outcome of poverty in PNG
Blog post by Mark Rice, Policy and Advocacy Manager at RESULTS. Originally published on DevPolicyBlog. As Australia’s nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea (PNG), hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders, it is timely to examine action on a key cause and outcome of poverty in PNG and other APEC countries...
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