{"id":4284,"date":"2019-11-19T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2019-11-19T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:17:48","slug":"foreign-aid-review-must-prompt-reset-in-budget-and-priorities-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/foreign-aid-review-must-prompt-reset-in-budget-and-priorities-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Aid Review Must Prompt Reset In Budget And Priorities: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Foreign Aid Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-11-19\/australias-$40-billion-a-year-aid-budget-to-be-reviewed\/11715856\">Government&#8217;s announcement<\/a>\u00a0of a review of Australia\u2019s foreign aid.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe Government must take this review as an opportunity to reset their approach to foreign aid to one that puts social, economic and climate justice at the heart of all our aid programs.<br \/>\n\u201cAt an irresponsibly low 0.2% of GNI, Australian aid has shrunk dramatically to well below the average for OECD countries. Our aid budget must be raised to at least meet our UN obligation of 0.7% of GNI.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know the Liberals\u2019 political repurposing of aid for Australia\u2019s self-interest and budget cuts have decimated our foreign aid program. The goal of aid should be to make the world a more equal and just place for all.<br \/>\n\u201cAid should never be used purely as a tool to further national interest. At the heart of our foreign aid program should be poverty reduction, climate resilience and social justice for our neighbours and other recipient communities,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Foreign Aid Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to the\u00a0Government&#8217;s announcement\u00a0of a review of Australia\u2019s foreign aid. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe Government must take this review as an opportunity to reset their approach to foreign aid to one that puts social, economic and climate justice at the heart of all our aid programs. \u201cAt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/foreign-aid-review-must-prompt-reset-in-budget-and-priorities-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Foreign Aid Review Must Prompt Reset In Budget And Priorities: Greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}