Austcare In the Media
09 May 2008, ABC Radio National 'Breakfast'
Aid workers say they're amazed that Burma has so far escaped a major outbreak of disease, after Cyclone Nargis battered the country. With the death toll now put at more than 140,000, aid agencies say they are still having problems getting food aid and relief personnel into the country. Shafqat Munir is Asia coordinator for relief agency Austcare and says one of the most pressing needs now is to ensure a rice crop is planted within the next two weeks. He has just returned from Burma and says in the last week aid has begun trickling in to the worst affected areas.
02 December 2007, ABC Radio ‘Sunday Nights’
Hagar Cohen speaks to Maryanne Kepui from Austcare about a unique sporting event in Cambodia
8 November 2007, ABC Radio Australia
CAMBODIA: Landmine clearance will take another decade
Cambodia says its countryside will not be cleared of landmines until 2020. Cambodia is one of the world's most heavily-mined countries, where every year, hundreds of people are either killed or maimed by the devices. Prime Minister Hun Sen says it will take at least another ten years of demining to make the countryside safe.
Presenter - Sen Lam
Speaker - James Turton, mines action officer for the humanitarian agency, AustCare
28 October 2007, ABC Radio 'Sunday Nights'
Hagar Cohen speaks to Rachel Vucak from Austcare in the West Bank.
Austcare has started a sporting program that provides aerobics lessons for women in the West Bank.
The idea is to get women out of their homes and active, and is particularly important in a region that is laden with violence.
18 September 2007, The Daily Star
Austcare Ambassador and Australian President of the International Commission of Jurists, John Dowd, pushes for greater recognition of the plight of Bangladesh's flood victims.
15 September 2007, The Australian
Australia to press for global ban on use of cluster bombs
14 September 2007, "The Wire" radio
Australia helping clean up cluster bombs in Lebanon
25 August 2007, SBS Radio
Austcare CEO, Mike Smith, discusses the political and civil turmoil in Timor-Leste
13 August 2007, ABC Radio National
Recruiters of Child Soldiers
Protection Officer with Austcare's Rapid Response Register, Tania Pesce discusses her recent secondment to Sri Lanka where she met former child soldiers and their families with Phillip Adams.
August 2007, The Cambodia Daily
Austcare Ambassador Returns to Cambodia
August 2007, Phnom Penn Post
Lieutenant General John Sanderson - Former UNTAC general back in Austcare role
12 August 2007, Asia Observer
Austcare commits extra $40k amid E Timor violence
12 August 2007, ABC News
Australian aid agency Austcare is working hard on the ground in East Timor to help people affected by the current violence.
10 August 2007, Voice of America
Former Untac Commander and Austcare Ambassador Returns to Cambodia on Mine Business
09 August 2007, The Australian
As East Timor's capital Dili lay a smoking ruin and starving dogs picked at rotting corpses, victims of retreating pro-Jakarta militia in September 1999, a US diplomat turned from the bleak apocalyptic vista to Australian ambassador James Batley and said: "East Timor is going to be Australia's Haiti."
07 August 2007, ABC News
Aid organisation Austcare has launched a campaign to encourage both sides of politics to support a global ban on cluster munitions.
07 August 2007, iQuango.org
One of Australia's leading authorities on landmines will launch a pre-election campaign designed to eradicate another devastating weapon from the world's arsenals.
07 August 2007, The Epoch Times
East Timor Violence Proves Australia Must Do Better
20 June 2007, ABC Radio National's Breakfast
World Refugee Day Austcare CEO Mike Smith discusses the current situation surrounding refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, particularly with regard to long term situations.
03 June 2007, ABC Radio National's Rear Vision
The story of the Palestinians in Lebanon Olfat Mahmoud, from Austcare's partner Women's Humanitarian Organisation, talks about the recent crisis in Nahr al-Bahred refugee camp.
24 May 2007, ABC Radio National's Late Night Live
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon A conversation with Olfat Mahmoud about the situation for the Palestinian refugees living in the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Beirut, where fighting has broken out between the Lebanese army and a militant group called Fatah al-Islam.
08 February 2007, Article from Queensland Country Life
East Timor beats Civil Unrest With support from the Crawford Fund, Austcare is improving food security in East Timor.
26 December 2006, News Report from the Herald Sun newspaper
Where hope is building Austcare's Aceh Program Director, Deborah Leaver, shares stories from the reconstruction of Aceh two years after the tsunami.
06 July 2006, ABC Radio National's Asia-Pacific Program
Cambodia: Success clearing landmines General John Sanderson, Austcare's Ambassador for Cambodia, was interviewed about the progress on landmine clearing and development in Cambodia.
28 June 2006, Speech at the Lowy Institute (Then search for MIke Smith)
The East Timor crisis Michael Smith, Austcare's CEO, discusses the prospects for peace and stability in East Timor.
27 June 2006, ABC Radio's The World Today Program
East Timor needs UN assistance, says Austcare head Michael Smith, Austcare's CEO, says East Timor needs UN assistance to support development.
14 May 2006, ABC Radio National's Sunday Nights Program
Postcard: from Nablus Koto Fukushima, Austcare's Project Officer working in the Palestinian Territories, talks about the challenges for the Palestinian people and current humanitarian development projects coordinated by Austcare.
07 May 2006, ABC Radio National's Sunday Nights Program
Postcard: Michael Milton on landmines Michael Milton, Ambassador for People Living with a Disability, was interviewed about the challenges faced by people living with a disability in Kenya.
05 May 2006, ABC Radio National's The Sport's Factor
Michael Milton Michael Milton, Austcare's Ambassador for People Living with a Disability, speaks about the impact of landmines in conflict affected regions.
03 May 2006, ABC Radio National's Breakfast Program
Landmine campaign Michael Milton, Austcare's Ambassador for People Living with a Disability, was interviewed about Austcare's Land Mine Action Projects.
20 April 2006, News report from The Australian newspaper
Milton fastest Aussie skier Michael Milton, Austcare's Ambassador for People Living with a Disability, breaks the Australian open alpine skiing record.
20 April 2006, News report from ABC Sport Online
Flying Milton breaks Australian speed record Michael Milton, Austcare's Ambassador for People Living with a Disability, breaks the Australian open alpine speed skiing record.
07 March 2006, Journal of Mine Action
Integrated Mine Action: A Rights-Based Approach in Cambodia Sally Campbell-Thorpe, Austcare's Land Mine Action Advisor, writes about mine clearing, human rights and development in Cambodia.