People & associates
Don D'Cruz
Aid targeted at poverty will not halt terrorism
Tim Costello is wrong to draw a link between terrorism and poverty and then go on to argue for more taxpayer funds to be spent on foreign aid. He...
Wrong song on Africa's woes
Leaders of the G8 gathering in Edinburgh tomorrow have become the focus of a concerted global campaign to have them fix the mess that is Africa. If...
Known Unknowns in the World of Aid
The tsunami disaster struck a chord with people around world. This is reflected by the staggering donations made to non-government organisations...
Amnesty trapped in the past
The Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, described Guantanamo Bay as the "gulag of our times" in her foreword to the...
'We Cannot Have the Same Expectations of the Terrorists...'
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, has labelled Guantanamo Bay the "gulag of our times," in her foreword to the most recent...
Back to basics at the bank
This week marked the end of Australian-born James D. Wolfensohn's tumultuous presidency of the World Bank. Former US deputy secretary of defence...
Bordering on Overkill
Today a small group of Liberal backbenchers will take to the Coalition party room a plan contained within two private members Bills to...
A leg-up for the small green groups
The Federal Minister for the Environment, Senator Ian Campbell, has recently had some green groups seeing red because of changes he is making to...
More for greens who actually get their hands dirty
Since the 1980s, government funding of green groups has seriously distorted the environment movement. It has encouraged lobbying over...
We've given enough
The Australian public has been incredibly generous in its response to the Boxing Day Tsunami appeals conducted by foreign aid non-government...