John Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

I can say in response to Senator Nettle’s supplementary question that I do believe that Australia is playing its part in the peace process. We have doubled our aid to the Palestinian territories to A$45 million in 2008. Our aid will be dispersed through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East and also through NGOs, as I understand it, and a multidonor trust fund that is being managed by the World Bank. It will go to helping with the improvement of essential services such as basic health care, food and security and also to promote democracy and good governance. (Time expired)