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Media release | Friday, 12 April 2024 The Safer World For All campaign has warned Australia’s aid spending stagnating at historic lows means the nation is failing to invest in future prosperity and security. OECD data released overnight shows Australia remains near the bottom of the OECD for aid spending as a proportion of Gross … Continued
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Media release | Monday, 8 April 2024 A coalition of humanitarian, global health and faith groups are demanding the Australian Government hold Israel accountable for blocking lifesaving aid into Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war. The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), Australian Global Health Alliance (AGHA), National Council of Churches in … Continued
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday 5th April, 2024 Press release Humanitarian workers’ safety must be guaranteed to support ‘colossal’ increase in aid to Gaza A “colossal” increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza is needed immediately to stop children from dying needlessly, restore dignity and ease psychological suffering, warns child rights NGO Plan International. This Sunday (7 … Continued
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Monash University’s Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon has been selected as part of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders 2024 class in recognition of her academic and policy work in tackling violence against women and children. Professor Fitz-Gibbon is the only Australian in this year’s prestigious group of passionate leaders. The World Economic Forum Young Global … Continued
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The Australian Council for International Development, the peak body for the aid and humanitarian agencies, has today expressed its deepest condolences to the family of killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom. Ms Frankcom was killed, along with four of her fellow aid workers, by an Israeli air strike in Gaza. She was working with the … Continued
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More than 100 church leaders have called on Australian politicians across the aisle to publicly back a permanent end to the bombing of civilians in Gaza. Australia’s highest ranking Anglican, Archbishop Geoffrey Smith, Uniting Church in Australia President Rev Sharon Hollis and Micah Australia Executive Director Tim Costello are among 106 signatories to a letter urging parliament … Continued
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The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) today tabled the report of its review of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018. The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (FITS) was established to provide the public with visibility of the nature, level and extent of foreign influence on Australia’s government and politics. The scheme creates an obligation for people … Continued
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The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties will hold two public hearings today for its inquiries into the Second Protocol to Amend the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) (AANZFTA Second Protocol) and the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks (the Nairobi Convention). The second public hearing to be held by the Committee on the AANZFTA Second … Continued
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As a ‘Progress Snapshot’ is unveiled at a parliamentary breakfast today to mark World Tuberculosis Day, there is renewed hope the deadly disease can be eliminated in the region with increased funding, according to Results International (Australia). With progress getting back on track from COVID-19 setbacks, the snapshot analysis by Results International (Australia) reveals … Continued
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Media release | Saturday, 23 March 2024 The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), Australia’s peak body for development and humanitarian organisations, welcomes the resolution voted upon by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) today as a long-overdue shift in position on the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. ACFID’s Chief Executive Officer Marc Purcell said: … Continued
