Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Moore for her question. Can I say at the outset that we welcome the report. We have an open and transparent approach to aid and we support periodic public reviews. This is part of a process that OECD DAC members go through, and we encourage other nonmembers to consider undertaking public reviews. It's a bit rich for the opposition to come in here and attack our overseas development assistance. When you were last in government, $750 million was diverted out of the overseas development assistance budget to pay for your blowout in border protection. You became the third largest recipient of your own overseas development assistance program, and this meant that assistance was cut to 25 developing countries, including—