John Howard signed and committed Australia to meeting the Millenium Aid Goals by 2015.
The opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie Bishop, emailed sector workers, vowing the Coalition would maintain its commitment to increasing the aid budget to 0.5 per cent of gross national income, but claimed Labor's budget had made reaching the 2015 target ''impossible''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/coalition-wont-keep-aid-commitment-20120510-1yfni.html#ixzz2kJQXup9j
Then along came Joe.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-06/an-coalition-aid-cuts-reax/4940604
World Vision forecasts that the cuts foreshadowed by the Coalition will take the aid budget down to around 0.33 per cent of national income over the four-year forward estimates.
The Libs : How can they be trusted in Government when all they said in Opposition was pure theatre?
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