Australia International Development Policy

Where Does Gender Equality Fit Into Australia’s Development Policy?

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Oceania | Diplomacy | Oceania Clearly articulating gender-based violence as the world’s primary security problem is necessary to properly address it.  Advertisement Last week Australia released its new international development policy. With Australia situated in a mostly developing neighborhood, the policy is one of the central arms of its regional foreign policy. The policy recognizes that the world has … Read more

Is This the Australian Government’s Marshall Plan?

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Is This the Australian Government’s Marshall Plan?

Advertisement In 1950, as the United States confronted a destroyed Europe and the threat of a new Soviet empire, U.S. Secretary of Defense George Marshall announced a plan of assistance “directed not at any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.” The Marshall Plan, as it became known, remains the single greatest … Read more