Senate debates Motions

Overseas Development Assistance


Christine Milne

Christine Milne Tasmania, Australian Greens

3:44 pm

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   reaffirms its commitment to increase overseas development assistance (ODA) to at least 0.5 per cent of gross national income (GNI) by 2015; and

  (b)   calls on the Government to implement a timetable for raising ODA to 0.7 per cent of GNI, the international aid target called for by the United Nations.

Stephen Parry

Stephen Parry Tasmania, Liberal Party

The question is that the motion be agreed to.