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2011

16-04-2011 Australia’s Pacific interests exposed

20-04-2011 Mekong future in balance — opposition to dam plans grows

01-07-2011 Rudd must reduce consultant fees robbing overseas aid budget

06-07-2011 Overseas Aid Review welcome, more accountability needed

25-08-2011 Speech: Pacific trade negotiations

30-08-2011 Lee on Radio Australia: Greens slam Australia’s handling of Pacific Chief Trade Advisor office

06-09-2011 Govt should come to table at Pacific Islands Forum with promised support for Pacific countries

06-09-2011 Rudd must stand up for Cambodian NGOs targeted for work on troubled AusAID project

13-10-2011 Greens win more govt support for overseas women farmers

13-10-2011 Motion: Women Smallholder Farmers

18-10-2011 Estimates: Australian Federal Police

19-10-2011 Estimates: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

20-10-2011 Senate Estimates: AusAID

02-11-2011 Breast cancer in Gaza motion supported by Greens, Labor and Coalition MPs

23-11-2011 Motion: Australia’s aid funding

18-12-2011 Mekong dams – generating controversy

21-12-2011 ANZ in Laos: banking on poverty

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2012

09-01-2012 Corporate Australia gets fat on foreign aid money

16-01-2012 Birds of summer from Coogee to Laos

16-02-2012 Estimates: AusAID

16-02-2012 Estimates: Trade

27-02-2012 Question: Mekong River

28-02-2012 Speech: Women’s Reproductive Health in South-East Asia

05-03-2012 Estimate adventures with a cameo Yes Minister appearance

13-03-2012 Carr can better Rudd on overseas aid

13-03-2012 Speech: A story from Gaza

22-03-2012 Motion: World Water Day

05-04-2012 Quarantine foreign aid budget from razor gang cuts: Greens

04-05-2012 Don’t want the PM to cut aid in next week’s Budget?

04-05-2012 Why Labor Needs To Honour Rudd’s Word on Aid

08-05-2012 Government aid decision a mistake: Greens

09-05-2012 Audio: Foreign Aid Cuts in Budget

09-05-2012 Lee talks about aid cuts on 2SER’s AidWorks

17-05-2012 Senator Lee Rhiannon on ABC TV 24 talking foreign affairs

07-06-2012 Senate Estimates: AusAID

07-06-2012 Senate Estimates: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

21-06-2012 Prime Minister appointed to global aid group: Time to reverse budget cut to aid

28-06-2012 Motion: Aid for family planning

29-06-2012 Greens secure support for inquiry into aid in Afghanistan

03-07-2012 AusAID project at risk in Palestinian Territories – Susiya demolitions

09-07-2012 Afghan aid boost welcome, checks needed on support for mining industry

10-07-2012 Reducing pregnancy deaths will need money to back up Carr’s words

16-08-2012 Motion: Aid funding for family planning

24-08-2012 Bob Carr reveals Australian foreign aid money may be spent on Nauru/PNG

24-08-2012 Question without Notice: Sen Rhiannon to Carr on overseas aid spent on Nauru/PNG refugee detention

30-08-2012 Carr should assure PNG PM that aid dollars won’t flow to Manus Is detention

30-08-2012 Sen Lee Rhiannon talks about using aid money on Manus Is detention

19-09-2012 Greens Sen Lee Rhiannon on ABC24 Capital Hill: Afghanistan and Marriage Equality

18-10-2012 Budget estimates – Lee questions AusAID on aid for Nauru or Manus Island

18-10-2012 Senate Estimates: FADT Committee

19-11-2012 Speech: Mekong River dam

19-11-2012 Speech: World Toilet Day

27-11-2012 Launch of national campaign to get Hydro Tasmania out of destructive Sarawak Dams

27-11-2012 Motion: Lynas

05-12-2012 Govt uses overseas aid dollars to grease wheels of PNG’s Manus Island detention centre

06-12-2012 $190m Defence budget blunder: Carr should restore money to Afghan aid programs

06-12-2012 Speech: Pay tribute to Andrew Hewett

12-12-2012 Australian govt loan under fire for supporting destructive gas project in PNG

17-12-2012 Govt robs money from aid budget for failed refugee policy

18-12-2012 Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon ABC TV News aid cuts

18-12-2012 Greens Sen Lee Rhiannon on ABC 7.30 re aid cuts

18-12-2012 Media conference: Lee Rhiannon on Carr’s cuts to overseas aid budget to prop up failed refugee policy and on Coalition moves to cut Student Start-Up Scholarships

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2013

06-02-2013 Speech: Oaktree Foundation

08-02-2013 Abbott’s first broken promise: will it be cuts to foreign aid?

14-02-2013 Budget estimates – Lee questions AusAID about cuts to the Global Fund to fight AIDS and aid programs in the Pacifc, Burma, Sri Lanka and Palestine

14-02-2013 Budget estimates – Lee questions AusAID about the ‘mining for development’ initiative and AusAID involvement in recent African Mining Indaba

14-02-2013 Budget estimates – Lee questions Carr and AusAID about diverting $375 million from the aid budget

14-02-2013 Budget estimates – Lee questions Dept of Foreign Affairs about Burma and disappearance of Laos activist

14-02-2013 Budget estimates – Lee questions EFIC about PNG LNG and the Productivity Commission Recommendations

14-02-2013 Greens Senator questions diversion of aid budget for housing refugees on mainland

15-02-2013 Budget estimates – Lee questions Dept of Foreign Affairs about funding from the Direct Aid Program for mining companies

21-02-2013 Greens Sen Lee Rhiannon on ABC24’s Capital Hill program

27-02-2013 Motion: Malaria and global hydro fluorocarbons phase-out and access to sanitation.

27-02-2013 Speech: Aid projects in Palestine

08-03-2013 Greens Sen Lee Rhiannon questions Carr in Estimates on diversion of foreign aid for immigration

08-03-2013 Newsline program:Lee Rhiannon questions Carr about diversion of aid funding to immigration

13-03-2013 Greens push for more and better overseas aid

14-03-2013 Christine Milne and Lee Rhiannon join Oaktree rally to end poverty

14-03-2013 Greens welcome Movement to End Poverty

14-03-2013 Labor and Coalition vote against protecting aid budget

14-03-2013 Lee Rhiannon in the Senate speaking about aid funding cuts

14-03-2013 MOTION: Don’t cut overseas aid! – Senator Lee Rhiannon

14-03-2013 Senator Lee Rhiannon on doors on overseas aid

21-03-2013 Australia should join Britain and commit to 0.7% GDP foreign aid spending

21-03-2013 Motion: Syrian crisis

21-03-2013 Motion: Tuberculosis

23-03-2013 Australian Defence Force loses track of 65% of its Afghanistan military aid projects

06-05-2013 Lee takes the ‘Live Below The Line’ challenge

07-05-2013 Day 1 LBTL: Talking to APHEDA about aid projects

07-05-2013 Greens launch bill to increase overseas aid

07-05-2013 Milne and Rhiannon Press Conference: Overseas Aid

07-05-2013 Photos: Christine Milne and Lee Rhiannon launch aid bill in Canberra

08-05-2013 Day 2 LBTL: Greens launch new International Aid and Dev bill

08-05-2013 Day 3 LBTL: Another experience

09-05-2013 Day 4 LBTL: Lee talks to Oxfam about Food Security

10-05-2013 Day 5 LBTL: The week in review

13-05-2013 Carr fails to protect aid budget from cuts

16-05-2013 Aid in Afghanistan report released: militarised aid problematic

16-05-2013 The Aid Budget Is Not An ATM

16-05-2013 Senate Inquiry: The administration, management and objective of Australia’s overseas development programs in Afghanistan in the context of the ‘Transition Decade’

04-06-2013 Senate Estimates: Department of Defence

06-06-2013 Senate Estimates: Australian Agency for International Development

06-06-2013 Senate Estimates: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

24-06-2013 Motion: Small-scale food producers

26-06-2013 Greens introduce bill for more and better aid

26-06-2013 Motion: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

26-06-2013 Second reading speech: Overseas Aid (Millenium Development Goals) Bill

17-07-2013 Australian Greens welcome action to improve Disability Inclusive Development

24-07-2013 Labor govt in failed abusive relationship with Pacific states over aid and refugees

02-08-2013 Labor’s claim on aid lacks credibility

19-08-2013 Greens welcome aid groups’ election plan

30-08-2013 Australia is failing to live up to its responsibilities to protect women

03-09-2013 The Greens’ Plan for Ending Extreme Poverty

06-09-2013 Coalition breaks promise — adopts selfish overseas aid cuts

18-09-2013 Abbott’s overseas aid plan: an act of betrayal

18-09-2013 Lee Rhiannon on 2SER’s AidWorks

29-10-2013 Coalition urged to retain aid in post-war Afghanistan

12-11-2013 My detention highlights why Australia should boycott Chogm

13-11-2013 Adjournment Speech: Lee pays tribute to Bob Walshe and Vision 2020

13-11-2013 Motion on World Sight Day and Vision 2020

02-12-2013 Senate Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee

03-12-2013 Motion: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

11-12-2013 Motion on Syria

20-12-2013 2013 End of year message from Lee

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2014

17-01-2014 $95 million aid cut to the International Development Association

20-01-2014 Govt aid cuts and open door for business major setback for poverty alleviation

24-01-2014 East Timor Aid Scandal Not The First

12-02-2014 Senate supports Greens amendments calling for $96 million increase in aid to Syria

18-02-2014 Abbott delivers final twist of the knife to aid program

27-02-2014 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (DFAT)

04-03-2014 Adjournment Speech: Publish what you pay

18-03-2014 Labor refuses to support call to work towards the UN MDG 0.7% target

18-03-2014 Motion: International Development Assistance

28-03-2014 Julie Bishop Betrays Tamil Victims

01-04-2014 Op ed: Foreign aid cuts offer a cruel climate for those in need

14-05-2014 Abbott trashes the aid program

14-05-2014 Cruel budget betrays the world’s poor – Abbott trashes the aid program

18-06-2014 Bishop’s corporatised aid plan set to damage communities

20-06-2014 Bishop’s corporatised aid plan set to damage communities

23-06-2014 Australian activist arrested at Lynas Malaysia protest – mass blockade

08-07-2014 Adjournment speech: International development assistance

09-07-2014 Motion: International development assistance

15-07-2014 Israel’s “collective punishment” kills civilians; Gaza’s Ark destroyed

17-07-2014 Questions Without Notice: Aid and the budget

29-09-2014 Ebola: Greens urge Bishop to back on-ground teams for West Africa

01-10-2014 Motion: International Development and Disability

01-10-2014 Motion: Overseas Aid and the Gavi Program

02-10-2014 Aid budget robbed for Iraq war

23-10-2014 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio)

23-10-2014 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio)

23-10-2014 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio)

01-12-2014 Julie Bishop’s hypocrisy: celebrates #40yearsofaid while ripping more out of aid budget

04-12-2014 A legislated aid framework to stop Bishop pick pocketing the world’s poor

05-12-2014 Stop Abbott’s Privatisation

15-12-2014 Legislation needed to stop politicians pickpocketing Australia’s aid budget: Greens

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2015

12-02-2015 Aid cuts fail Julie Bishop’s gender rhetoric – gender target missed

26-02-2015 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

27-02-2015 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Export Finance and Insurance Corporation)

05-03-2015 Greens Bill to push Bishop on gender equality in aid projects

05-03-2015 Speech: International Aid (Promoting Gender Equality) Bill 2015 Second Reading

24-03-2015 Ebola report shows that aid funding must be restored

25-03-2015 Op ed: Putting gender at the centre of Australian aid

20-04-2015 Coalition aid cuts are hurting world’s most vulnerable

13-05-2015 Australia’s commitment to alleviating poverty — trashed

03-06-2015 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

04-06-2015 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Export Finance and Insurance Corporation)

04-06-2015 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio)

04-06-2015 SBS News: Lee asks about the effectiveness of aid to South Sudan

09-06-2015 Burma aid cuts highlights Foreign Minister’s portfolio failure

11-07-2015 Abbott govt overdue on regulating to stop Aust mining companies overseas abuses

17-07-2015 Overseas aid loses out again – Australia joins block on tougher tax provisions

10-08-2015 Motion: International Development Assistance

12-08-2015 Speech: Malawi Loses US$43 Million from Mining Company Paladin

18-08-2015 Speech: International Development Assistance

14-09-2015 Speech: Climate Change and Social Inequality

17-09-2015 Speech: Greens’ International Aid (Promoting Gender Equality) Bill 2015

21-09-2015 Leaked documents puts spotlight on Australia’s self interest in Pacific

23-09-2015 PM’s first week sees cuts to polio eradication funding

13-10-2015 Motion: Support the Sustainable Development Goals

14-10-2015 Speech: Aid and Climate Change in Papua New Guinea

14-10-2015 Speech: The man who walked for Palestine

16-10-2015 Greens announce commitment to 0.7% GNI aid target by 2025

30-10-2015 Greens call for immediate reversal of aid cuts to NGO Cooperation Program

02-11-2015 Greens call on Shorten to back Pacific development for people before Australian companies

27-11-2015 Speech: The Tamil struggle for freedom, justice and a homeland

01-12-2015 Prime Minister Turnbull a two-faced friend to Pacific nations

11-12-2015 Turnbull warned on overseas aid — use MYEFO to restore funding, end Abbott era cuts

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2016

14-01-2016 Turnbull plunders overseas aid budget – more essential programs to be cut

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Australia-Indonesia education partnership)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Cambodia)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (DFAT training)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Global Poverty Project)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Myanmar)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Palestine)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (project assessment)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (staff numbers)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Vietnam)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (water and sanitation programs)

11-02-2016 Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (Zika virus)

23-02-2016 Speech: Vision 2020 and Australian aid

24-02-2016 We need more than a Band-Aid approach to help Pacific neighbours with extreme weather

02-05-2016 Budget callout on overseas aid — show some decency, reverse the cuts

04-05-2016 Treasurer cuts overseas aid, trashes own reputation

18-05-2016 Asia Pacific Greens on tour – meet with Australian Greens reps

25-05-2016 Labor’s aid commitment far too weak

08-06-2016 Greens in support of women on Nauru

14-06-2016 Greens announce aid policy

28-06-2016 Australian aid gets lost in the marketplace for corporate interests

06-08-2016 World Vision Gaza allegations

04-11-2016 Senate Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee: Department of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Foreign Affairs Portfolio (Non-Trade Programs)

04-11-2016 Senate Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee: Department of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Foreign Affairs Portfolio (Non-Trade Programs)

09-11-2016 Senate Estimates: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee: Department of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Foreign Affairs Portfolio (Non-Trade Programs)

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2017

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2018

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