AID/WATCH IN THE NEWS: Australian foreign aid to East Timor 'wasted'

29 Jul 09
Author: Presenter: Claudette Werden Source: ABC Radio Australia
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.

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