Jodie Campbell (Bass, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

recognises:

(a)

that there are more than one billion of our fellow human beings suffering from the effects of extreme poverty; and

(b)

the commitment of the Federal Government to increase foreign aid to 0.5% of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2015;

(2)

acknowledges that this increase still falls short of the target of 0.7% of GNI as set out by the United Nations General Assembly in 1970;

(3)

commends the efforts of the Micah Challenge in raising issues surrounding extreme poverty, particularly in Australia’s region of the world; and

(4)

reaffirms the Government’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

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