Australia's International Development Assistance Program Budget 2009-10

12 May, 2009: The 2009-10 Budget underlines the ongoing commitment to increase Australia's Official Development Assistance (ODA) to 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2015-16.

AusAID approach a good model for indigenous communities

June 23, 2009: The 2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson, has told a national conference that the principles AusAID uses in delivering aid throughout the region should be applied to the delivery of assistance to Australia's indigenous communities.

PNG - Australia Ministerial Forum

19 June, 2009: Mutual commitments on improvements in the areas of transport infrastructure, basic education, health, the public service and statistics have been endorsed as part of the PNG - Australia Ministerial Forum, held in Brisbane in early June.

Australia Committed to Disaster Risk Reduction

16 June, 2009: Reducing the vulnerability and enhancing the resilience of countries and communities to disasters is the overarching goal of a new AusAID policy launched at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.

Leading by Example - Protecting the Most Vulnerable During the Economic Crisis

16 June, 2009: The 2009 Report of the Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals outlines how countries are making the protection of vulnerable people, particularly women and children, a priority in their aid programs.

Operation Open Heart Saving Lives in PNG

11 June, 2009: Teams of Australian and Papua New Guinean doctors and nurses have provided life-saving heart surgery to children with heart defects in Port Moresby. The teams worked together under the Operation Open Heart (OOH) initiative