{"id":23531,"date":"2020-10-07T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/australias-global-aid-budget-falls-but-pacific-and-timor-leste-get-a-covid-fighting-fund"},"modified":"2020-10-07T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T04:49:42","slug":"australias-global-aid-budget-falls-but-pacific-and-timor-leste-get-a-covid-fighting-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23531","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s global aid budget falls \u2013\u00a0but Pacific and Timor-Leste get a Covid fighting fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official development assistance declines to $4bn, boosted by $304m over two years to help region recover<\/p>\n<p>Australia will increase its aid budget to only the Pacific and Timor-Leste this year as aid and development spending to all other parts of the world face further declines after years of swingeing cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Although Australia\u2019s aid budget has fractionally increased this year, the government has \u2013 unusually \u2013 reported it as a decline, instead allocating additional money as an extraordinary one-off supplement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/australias-global-aid-budget-falls-but-pacific-and-timor-leste-get-a-covid-fighting-fund\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official development assistance declines to $4bn, boosted by $304m over two years to help region recoverAustralia will increase its aid budget to only the Pacific and Timor-Leste this year as aid and development spending to all other parts of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,536,645,50,1069,1718,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-the-pacific","category-timor-leste"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23531\/revisions\/23532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}