Methodology: finding the numbers on Australia's foreign aid spending over time
- Written by Robin Davies, Associate Director, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
As the author of this FactCheck, I was asked to review the facts on Australia’s foreign aid spending from the Menzies era to 2016-17. Sir Robert Menzies was prime minister from 1949 to 1966, which is the Menzies era for present purposes. (Menzies also served as prime minister from 1939 to 1941.)
I examined the evidence for and against this...







