Australian foreign aid to Pacific 'wasted' on consultants' fees

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Updated July 29, 2009 00:17:17

The spotlight is again on foreign aid from Australia after comments by East Timor's president Jose Ramos Horta that foreign aid was being spent on East Timor but not in East Timor. It was only in April that the Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd made similar claims about aid to Papua New Guinea, saying too much Australian aid was being spent on consultants' fees.

Presenter: Claudette Werden
Speakers: Dr Jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese president; Dr Tim Anderson, AID/WATCH, Australia; Mark Purcell, The Australian Council for International Development; Paul Barker, Institute of National Affairs (independent think tank), Papua New Guinea

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