We Took Part In An Australian Aid Program. It Was More About Helping Your Country Than Ours

On 06 Nov, 2015 By ACTNOW

By Aminio David and Anita Tenkon, published in New Matilda

Advocates for traditional landowners in Vanuatu, Aminio David and Anita Tenkon were left disillusioned by an Australian aid program. Here, they explain why.

Australia urged to support civil society and reform in PNG

On 28 Sep, 2015 By ACTNOW

"the Australian government, through its aid programme, could invest a lot more in NGOs in PNG"

Source: Radio New Zealand

Australian aid in PNG seen as enabling core problems

On 25 Sep, 2015 By ACTNOW

Photo: Port Moresby CBD. RNZI / Koro Vaka'uta

Source: Radio New Zealand

Australia's aid programme in Papua New Guinea has been described as having enabled rather than remedied state fraud and market distortions in PNG

The damning indictment came in a submission by the International State Crime Initiative at an Australian senate inquiry into the aid programme in PNG.

Panguna Peace Strategy undermined

On 06 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine Watch

John Momis: Not the brightest bulb

On 29 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG exposed

A house divided within itself cannot stand

On 14 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Special Correspondent in Bougainville

Indigenous people, not Australians, should determine Vanuatu's future

On 19 Nov, 2013 By Tim

Source: Joel Simo* writing in the Sydney Morning Herald

To visiting Australians, my home, the island nation of Vanuatu, is either paradise or a Third World backwater. Holidaymakers prize our beaches and clear waters. But workers from aid organisations such as AusAID see limited employment opportunities and poverty.

Both groups have ideas for "improving" Vanuatu through holiday homes, tourism and a commercial track to "development", including the establishment of Western-style property rights.