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.