Aid effort fails to win Afghan hearts, minds

Multimillion-dollar aid projects may be fuelling pro-Taliban sentiment. By Tom Hyland.

Surfers Rescued Victim's Teen Sons

SURFERS attempted to save a Sydney father who died after he went to the aid of his two teenage sons in heavy surf on the South Coast.

Man Dies Trying To Save Sons From Surf

A MAN has died after going to the aid of his two teenager sons when they began to struggle in rough surf on the South Coast.

Now More Than Ever It Is Time To Boost Aid

The economic gloom that has shrouded the world this year has led many to ask whether the apparent prosperity that preceded it was real. We know that in China, India, Russia and the United States, the number of billionaires soared. More generally, the top 1 per cent of the population prospered. But the gap between the rich and poor widened and, at least in the US, the incomes of the poor and the middle class stagnated.

Don't Be Fooled By The 'success' Of Remediation

Ann Young was correct in highlighting the Band-Aid nature of the so-called repair to the cracking caused by longwall mining beneath the Waratah Rivulet, a feeder tributary of the Woronora Dam ("Cure for cracked river riles greens", November 25).

Children Are A Charity Drawcard

Australians are keen to support overseas aid, writes Margot Date. THERE is competition in Australia for fundraising dollars and for charity staff. Pathways Australia has helped ChildFund Australia in several ways, including with recruitment.

Poor Can Profit In New World

Helping the needy become customers rather than desperate recipients of aid is a priority.

The Flying Dispensary

He takes to the air to aid Aboriginal communities and the job satisfaction is as vast as his beat, writes Owen Thomson. THERE aren't many pharmacists who climb into a cockpit to begin a day's work. But for Peter Hatswell, flying and dispensing pharmaceuticals go hand in hand as he does his rounds of remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

Hear Pretty, Well

AESTHETICS was a prime consideration in the design of a new hearing aid now on sale.

Artery In Neck Slashed Praise For First Aid

A 14-YEAR-OLD Morpeth boy was lucky to be alive after the main artery in his neck was severed in a motorbike accident at Nelsons Plains yesterday, police said.

Carefully Into The Pakistan Maelstrom

The US billions in aid has done little to stop the coddling of Islamic militants, especially with the military in control, writes Paul McGeough.

Soul Mate Is Laid To Rest But His Gift Lives

THE Australian aid worker Darren Stratti was shot dead just before he finished overseeing the building of a village in Tanzania but his father has pledged that his friends and family would complete the work.

A Dreamer's Life Cut Short In One Deadly African Moment

STANDING in his garden at Petersham a year ago, with the love of his life by his side, Darren Stratti described the passion that prompted them to leave behind the comforts of Sydney for an aid mission in Africa.

Bracks Warns Overseas Aid Must Foster Autonomy

THE Federal Government should urgently overhaul Australia's overseas aid program, according to former premier Steve Bracks.

Barristers Rise To Defence Of Legal Aid

SENIOR members of the legal fraternity have condemned comments by Attorney-General Rob Hulls about $14,000-a-day barristers, claiming it is government neglect of legal aid, not barristers' fees, that is making the law inaccessible for ordinary Victorians.

Ban On Abortion-linked Aid Unjustified: Oxfam

THE chief of Oxfam, one of Australia's major foreign aid organisations, has pleaded with the Rudd Government to drop the ban on official Australian aid funding abortion advice to women.

Fuel Scheme Gets Accc Backing

KEVIN RUDD said solidarity abounded in his rattled Government yesterday as the competition watchdog rushed to his aid by stating the FuelWatch program would benefit motorists.

Help Others, Help Yourself

A stint as an aid worker is good for the soul and the CV, writes Anne Fawcett.

Nation's Helping Hand Gets Bigger

THE Government has taken the first step towards its promised increase in the foreign aid budget to 0.5% of gross national income by 2015.

Solomons Resentment Builds

RESENTMENT is growing in the Solomon Islands over the extent to which the Australian-led peacekeeping mission there is driving up prices and leaving the local people much worse off, a foreign aid watchdog group has warned.