Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

acknowledges that the Millennium Development Goals are an important part of the global fight against poverty;

(2)

acknowledges that the Millennium Development Goals require Australia to make an increased contribution to the eradication of poverty, particularly in our region, which consistently ranks among the poorest in the world across the measures used by the Millennium Development Goals; and

(3)

notes:

(a)

Australia has committed to increasing its foreign aid budget to being 0.7% of GNI in 2015 in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals;

(b)

the Government will need to increase foreign aid allocated to future budgets in order to achieve the target 0.7% of GNI by 2015;and

(c)

debt relief for developing nations provides opportunities that are beneficial for the global community in allowing debt repayment funds to be re-allocated towards infrastructure development, food, health care and education funding. (Notice given 19 June 2006.)

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