Diplomacy is essential to a peaceful world, so why did DFAT's funding go backwards in the budget?
- Written by Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia faces “its most difficult and dangerous security environment” since the second world war. Labor leader Anthony Albanese has made similar comments.
In 1949, shortly after the war, Australia invested 9% of the federal budget in development and diplomacy. If you applied that...
