Polling reveals many are “quite alarmed” when they find out how little the government really spends helping poorer nations.
The Albanese government is spending just 0.68 per cent of the federal budget on international humanitarian aid – around half the proportion of a decade ago.
A survey by research firm Redbridge found one in four respondents assumed 3 per cent or more of the budget was allocated to foreign aid while one in 12 said the proportion was over 10 per cent. In all, 53 per cent of respondents overestimated budget spending while a further 32 per cent were unsure. Only 14.4 per cent correctly estimated that less than 1 per cent of the budget was spent on aid.
“When we explain to Australians that only about 0.7 per cent of the total federal budget is spent on aid they’re quite alarmed,” he said. “Most of them had the view that it was much, much larger.” The Safer World for All campaign, which commissioned the polling, is calling for aid spending to be lifted to 1 per cent of the federal budget, a level last achieved in 2014-15. The campaign is co-ordinated by the Australian Council for International Development and advocacy group Micah Australia.
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