Paul,

Either you have been living under a rock or are being obtuse. There is more than enough articles on the issue. Once again I prefer not to do research on behalf of others. I would suggest you try google.

For example, Oxfam and other charities spend about 25% of their entire revenue on advertising and lobbying before one cent goes towards administration, logistics, wages etc. They then subcontract most of their aid delivery etc, so generally, the end recipients get 20c in the dollar if they are lucky.

Haasy, living in the past. Dragging something out of Tutankhamun's Tomb, aka 1975, 43 years ago, care to substantiate, not that it has any relevance to today.

Shadow, what does Oxfam have to do with Australia's aid program 2018?

Information provided states that since "Independence" PNG has been & still is receiving $1.2 Million/day from Australia. With that sort of daily present many of us could be "independent" as well.
I don't know about Fiji & the people there but I'd imagine they'd be somewhat more industrious than those in PNG. There are Doctors, Airline Pilots, Business people etc amongst the PNG people in the larger centres but on the whole, the population is still rather tribal in every way.
So, providing foreign aid to PNG in the form of money has proven to be beneficial only for a handful of officials.
Shovel & picks would be a much more sensible aid for rural PNG.

Paul,

An example:

"Appalled by revelations British aid workers from Oxfam’s UK branch systematically engaged prostitutes in Haiti, possibly including some underage, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has asked Oxfam Australia to suspend funding to overseas operations of its UK counterpart.

Oxfam Australia, which ­receives about $20 million a year from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has agreed to the request, which affects about $5.5m of DFAT funds ­directed to projects managed by Oxfam Great Britain, including in South Sudan and for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon."

Belly,

"John Howard used aid to Indonesia to fund schools to educate the young about how wrong faith based teaching of hate is, surely that was aid in our best interests?"

Tell us how that worked, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how Indonesian school teachers, in a Moslem country, taught how wrong the faith based teaching was.

Bye the way, have you found those black clothed Catholic nuns in Australia yet?

Shadow, good to see Bishop has taken appropriate action in that particular matter. But its hardly significant when discussing Australia's international aid programme as a whole.