Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. The OECD Development Assistance Committee 2018 peer review of Australia, published this week, on Tuesday, has found that cuts to Australia's international development budget have impacted on Australia's international profile and reputation and that 'Australia now needs to restore its official development assistance'. Since 2013, the Abbott-Turnbull government has slashed Australia's international development budget by well over $11 billion. Can the minister confirm that, under the Turnbull government, Australia's total spend on international development assistance is projected to fall to 0.2 per cent of gross national income by 2020-21? That's the lowest level since records were first kept.