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May 11, 2021 9:35 pm AEST Date Time Share COVID-19 Spikes Across Asia, Australian Aid Falls The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – Australia’s peak-body for international development NGOs – has expressed concern that against the backdrop of an Asia-Pacific at the epicentre of the pandemic, Australia’s development assistance is declining. Responding to the budget, ACFID CEO, Marc Purcell said: “The Australian Government did the right thing by front-loading its immediate regional response to COVID-19. But despite COVID-19 deaths rising alarmingly across the Asia-Pacific, Australian development assistance is now declining. “The situation is fast evolving, but our budget response...
