Foreign Aid and Disasters

Dr. Peter McCawley, former Deputy Director General of AusAID, former Dean of the Asian Development Bank, former head of the Australian National University's Indonesia Project and currently a Visiting Fellow, at Arndt-Corden Economics Division & Indonesia Project Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific, addresses issues about Australia’s aid response to recent disasters in Lombok and Sulawesi.

Cans are lined up neatly, waiting to be filled at a petrol station in Palu Source: AAP - October 18

Overall has the coordination of aid distribution in Lombok and Sulawesi been effective.  Is Australia providing enough financial support?  Dr. Peter McCawley answers these and related questions.

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