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Senate Committee sets out a blueprint for implementing Sustainable Development Goals
19 Feb, 2019
In a joint statement, the Australian Council for International Development, Australian Council of Social Service and the United Nations Association of Australia have welcomed the findings and...
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EFIC Reform Puts Pacific ‘Step-Up' at Risk
14 Feb, 2019
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) has raised concerns about reform to Australia’s export credit agency - EFIC - as part of the Australian Government’s Pacific ‘step-up’...
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EFIC Reform Puts Pacific ‘Step-Up' at Risk
14 Feb, 2019
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) has raised concerns about reform to Australia’s export credit agency - EFIC - as part of the Australian Government’s Pacific ‘step-up’...
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Medevac Bill: Restoring Compassion and Reversing Cruelty
13 Feb, 2019
The Australian Council for International Development has welcomed the passing of amendments in the Senate to give doctors a greater say on whether people in offshore detention should be brought to...
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Labor Party Commitment to Increased Aid Funding a Foreign Policy Leap Forward
18 Dec, 2018
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – the peak-body for aid and international development NGOs – has welcomed today’s Labor Party Conference resolution to increase...
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DAMAGING LACK OF COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL AID UNDER GOVERNMENT
17 Dec, 2018
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – the peak-body for aid and international development NGOs – has denounced the Government’s lack of commitment to building Australia’s...
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ACFID Releases Board Response to the Final Report of the Independent Review on Prevention of Sexual Misconduct
20 Nov, 2018
The Board of Australia’s peak-body for aid and international development NGOs – the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – has responded to the...
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Comments on the Prime Minister’s Pacific ‘Step-Up’ Announcements
08 Nov, 2018
*Marc Purcell, CEO of the Australian Council for International Development:* “The frank admission by the Prime Minister that ‘too often’ we have taken our Pacific neighbours...
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“Sickened by the political games”, Aid NGOs Resolve to get #KidsOffNauru
30 Oct, 2018
Over 120 Australian aid and development NGOs have united behind a new resolution at their annual conference to up-the-ante in campaigning to get #KidsOffNauru in the face of political stagnation....
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Aid NGO-Sector Puts Spotlight on Safeguarding at Annual Conference
30 Oct, 2018
Members of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – the peak-body for Australian international development NGOs – have adopted a series of sector-wide safeguarding...