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    In Canberra, confusion over Australia’s aid program

    The 2015-16 federal budget slashed AU$1 billion across Canberra’s bilateral and multilateral aid programs. Save for a few exceptions, these cuts seem to contradict the country’s stated aid policy — leaving the Australian development community confused over the future of Canberra’s aid program.

    By Lisa Cornish // 13 May 2015

    As Australia’s development community gathered in Canberra to discuss the fallout of budget night, the theme was one of confusion.

    Why is aid cut to rein in spending while government spending remains high? Where is the government’s narrative on foreign aid? Why do the cuts seem to be out of sync with the foreign aid policy? And why is there such a lack of transparency?

    Tuesday night’s budget appeared to produce more questions than answers at the 2015 aid budget breakfast hosted by the Development Policy Center, which Devex attended.

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      Lisa Cornish@lisa_cornish

      Lisa Cornish is a freelance data journalist based in Canberra, Australia. Lisa formerly worked with News Corp Australia as a data journalist for the national network and was published throughout Australia in major metropolitan and regional newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph in Melbourne, Herald Sun in Melbourne, Courier-Mail in Brisbane and online through news.com.au. Lisa has recently been awarded the 2014 Journalist of the Year by the New South Wales Institute of Surveyors.

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