Mitchell Global Humanitarian Award
Today we are proud to announce a new prize, the Mitchell Global Humanitarian Award. The Award will recognize Australians and others supported by Australian aid who have made an outstanding contribution...
View ArticleRobyn Alders: saving chooks, empowering women
The first of our series of Aid Profiles is featured today on a new Devpolicy website: http://devpolicy.org/aidprofiles/. Dr Robyn Alders is an Australian veterinarian scientist who has spent much of...
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Newsletter: Mitchell Global Humanitarian Award + Aid Profiles | IWD2016 | Aid...
Introducing the Mitchell Global Humanitarian Award and Aid Profiles As announced at our 2016 Mitchell Oration last week, we have launched a new initiative, the Mitchell Global Humanitarian Award. The...
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Aisyiyah: 99 years of women’s empowerment
The second in our series of Aid Profiles is now online: on Indonesia’s longest-serving women’s organisation, Aisyiyah. Aisyiyah currently works with the Australian aid program to deliver the...
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Helen Evans: a decade on the frontiers of global health
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have become major forces in global health. When they were still finding their feet, an Australian woman played a...
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Peter Singer’s effective altruism
Australian philosopher Peter Singer has been listed among the world’s most influential people, and his writing on tough questions of morality has inspired both controversy and praise. One of the many...
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Not the Millennium Villages: Colin and Ria in Eastern Indonesia
When Colin Barlow and Ria Gondowarsito worked together on a report on poverty in Eastern Indonesia in the late 1980s, they didn’t know that it would become their life’s work. Over the subsequent thirty...
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Phillip Passmore: not your ordinary pharmacist
When major disasters strike in developing countries, donated goods are never far behind. But too often they are unneeded, unusable or provided far in excess of requirements. Pharmacist Phillip Passmore...
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