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Title – 6923 REGION: Carving up Australia's aid to the Pacific
Date – 23 July 2010
Byline – None
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – Crikey/Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, 23/7/10
Copyright – C/ACIJ
Status – Unabridged
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WHO PROFITS FROM AUSTRALIA'S AID? CARVING UP THE PIE
www.crikey.com.au/topic/who-profits-from-our-foreign-aid/
SYDNEY (Crikey/Pacific Media Watch): Who profits from Australia's foreign aid? Today, continuing a special coverage series with the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ), Crikey reveals how the taxpayers' foreign aid funding cake is carved up to show who's getting what from the foreign aid budget.
The biggest benefactors are not who you think. Rather than the big NGOs, who actually get very little government aid money to deliver programmes, the little-known Coffey International tops the […]
The series includes the Pacific and East Timor.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/23/who-profits-from-our-foreign-aid-carving-up-the-pie-where-the-little-known-dominate/
Who profits from our foreign aid?: carving up the pie, where the little-known dominate
Friday, 23 July 2010
by Wendy Bacon, the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent
Journalism, and Shu Shu He, a Master of Arts (Journalism) student at
UTS
Who profits from our foreign aid? Today, continuing Crikey's special
coverage, we carve up the cake to show who's getting what from
Australia's foreign aid budget.
The biggest benefactors are not who you think. Rather than the big
NGOs, who actually get very little government aid money to deliver
programs, the little-known Coffey International tops the list (we'll
delve […]
Who profits from our foreign aid? Growing your business —
Cardno-style
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism's Wendy Bacon and
Michelle Stephenson look at who gets what slice of the Australian aid
pie.
Who profits from our foreign aid? Snapshots of a multimillion dollar
industry
Friday, 16 July 2010
ACIJ's Michelle Stephenson and Wendy Bacon begin our corporate aid
snapshots with GHD International, in the latest installment of
Crikey's Who Profits From our Foreign Aid? series.
Who profits from our foreign aid? Export Finance and Investment
Corporation steps up
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Wendy Bacon and Flint Duxfield's report for the Australian Centre for
Independent Journalism for the second installment in Crikey's Who
profits from our foreign aid? series.
Who profits from our foreign aid? From cattle company to global aid
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
When James' father Kerry Packer purchased both companies in 1993, GRM
was an agricultural company managing rural investments and thousands of
cattle in Queensland. Here's how it grew from a cattle company to a
Foreign Aid giant.
We have a shameful record when it comes to Timor aid
Michael R James / Tuesday, 13 July 2010
One dangerous anomaly is that the refugees may well end up living in
better conditions than most Timorese, which would be difficult to
avoid.
Crikey Says: Reading the fine print on our foreign aid billions
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Some important issues are just too slippery, too remote or too big to
wrap your head around. Foreign aid is one of them.
Who profits from our foreign aid? The untold story of GRM
International
Monday, 12 July 2010
For nearly a decade one of Australia's most successful aid companies
and its biggest casino operator were owned by the same company. Wendy
Bacon and Flint Duxfield tell the untold story of GRM International.
Who profits from our foreign aid?: The 'technical assistance'
making business rich
Bernard Keane / Monday, 12 July 2010
Australia's "boomerang aid" has been making corporate Australia
very rich for years. In a new Crikey series, the Australian Centre for
Independent Journalism reveals the huge gap in accountability for
taxpayers' foreign aid funding
www.crikey.com.au/topic/who-profits-from-our-foreign-aid/
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