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Blog Post | Blog of Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 19th July 2011, 10:21am
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This month the world is learning about the ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa, where about 12 million people have been hit by the worst drought in almost 60 years. Australia has pledged more than $11 million in aid. It's heart-wrenching to see malnourished children in refugee camps in Kenya with tubes in their noses to feed them because their hungry mothers cannot.

AUSAID Burma

Estimates Transcripts | Spokesperson Scott Ludlam
Wednesday 8th June 2011, 12:34am
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Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Thursday 2 June 2011

Senator LUDLAM: I have a couple of questions relating to Burma as it relates to our aid program. I understand there was a recent Burma conference at ANU called Burma/Myanmar Update, held on 16 and 17 May in Canberra. I understand that this conference was funded by AusAID-or that is what the conference convener said. Can you confirm for us whether or not AusAID funded that conference?

Mr Moore: Yes, we have provided funding to that Burma update conference for some years. We were a funder this year as well.

AusAID - Family Planning Funding

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 5:20pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 14 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
AusAID has made a significant commitment to increasing its funding in the area of family planning. Can you please explain how investing in family planning contributes to the development of countries and the achievement of all the MDGs, and why it is so important for Australia to lead in this area, particularly in the Pacific?


AusAID - Reducing the Unmet Need for Family Planning

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 5:16pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 13 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
Australia becoming a founding member of the International Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health is an exciting development. At the last Senate estimates the Director General of AusAID, Mr Baxter, highlighted that Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Nigeria would be the initial countries that the Alliance would focus on, and that AusAID would be working to steer the Alliance to working with Australia in some of the countries in our region, including PNG, Timor Leste and Afghanistan-how has this work progressed? How does AusAID envisage Australia contributing to meeting the Alliance's very challenging goal to reduce unmet need for family planning by 100 million women living in developing countries by 2015?


AusAID - NEW Family Planning Initiatives

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 5:13pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 12 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
How much bilateral Australian aid funding, since August 2009 has gone to NEW family planning initiatives, that get family planning services to women who currently have an unmet need, to help reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions? How much money and support has gone to the provision of safe abortion services in the region?


AusAID - Family Planning Services

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 5:09pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 11 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
The Family Planning Guidelines were revised in August 2009 to provide "the same range of family planning services for women in developing countries as are supported for women in Australia, subject to the national laws of the relevant nation concerned". This includes support for safe abortion services, up to 20 weeks gestation. Considering there are 20 million unsafe abortions every year, and 46,000 deaths from unsafe abortion, all avoidable, how is the Australian aid program helping to reduce these statistics?


AusAID Strategy Review

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 5:03pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 10 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
We understand that AusAID has completed a bottom up strategy review to feed into the development of maternal, newborn and child health assistance. Can you provide further detail of the review, its main findings and how it will feed into informing Australia's future maternal health and child health assistance?


AusAID - Meternal, Newborn and Child Health

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 4:58pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 9 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
Is AusAID seeking to develop an overarching strategy or framework to guide the direction of its enhanced support for maternal, newborn and child health? Has AusAID identified priority countries or regions that will be the recipients of its assistance?


AusAID Investment in Children and Mental Health

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 4:53pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 8 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
Given the growing evidence that investing in early childhood and maternal health has a central role to play in development, is there scope for AusAID to increase investment in child and maternal health? 

AusAID Assistance

Question | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 4:49pm
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QUESTION NUMBER 7 - SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES HEARING FEBRUARY 2011


Senator Hanson-Young asked AusAID in writing on 13 February 2011:
What immediate assistance is AusAID providing to strengthen health systems at the community level and ensure that health services are reaching disadvantaged and remote communities to save lives immediately?