Chaotic Australian politics may have produced an unlikely winner — the foreign aid budget.
Votes may have been cast for who will govern Australia for the next four years, but a dramatic shift against the major political parties at the polling booth has produced an outcome that the Australian Electoral Commission is yet to finalize.
“We know from polling conducted prior to the election that ending poverty and increasing aid were influential on people's vote,” Tony Milne, campaign director of the Campaign for Australian Aid, told Devex. “Supporters of aid were deeply upset by severe cuts to aid and Australia backing away from its role as a middle power, punching above its weight on issues such as ending global poverty.”
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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.
