13 JANUARY 2015
Successive Australian aid cuts have “jerked around” the Marshall Islands and severely hampered development projects, according to the Pacific nation’s foreign minister, Tony de Brum.
The latest round of “reprioritised” aid funding, announced by the Australian treasurer, Joe Hockey, in his mid-year economic and financial outlook, stripped another A$3.7bn (£1.9bn) from the country’s aid budget.
Source: The Guardian