Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We should not lose sight that aid is not about nominal targets; it is about outcomes. Australia’s record aid budget will continue to deliver results to help our neighbours achieve the Millennium Development Goals. For example, in Papua New Guinea we will increase the number of births supervised by a trained nurse, midwife or doctor from 40 per cent in 2010 to 44 per cent by 2015, an additional 8,000 supervised deliveries per year. Australia’s aid will enable more children to attend school in Afghanistan. Enrolments are increasing from fewer than one million in 2001, and will reach 10 million in 2013-14, including three million girls. In Fiji, Australia’s assistance in 2013-14 will strengthen infant immunisation and maintain coverage rates above 90 per cent. In Laos we will work in partnership with non-government organisations to help clear unexploded ordnance from at least an additional 500 hectares of land. (Time expired)