{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevpolicytalks.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F2026-aid-budget-breakfast-xEfcfYtA","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"2026 aid budget breakfast","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/fa0fa394-2809-4496-8890-67d38b92b57e/bc51e914-199f-4a08-a40b-aad619b366c7/screenshot_2026_05_15_094624.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/79511620-37e1-4cbb-bede-e1c828eafd95\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"2026 aid budget breakfast\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Recorded the morning after the 2026–27 federal budget, this episode brings you the Development Policy Centre's fourteenth annual aid budget breakfast, hosted by Devpolicy Blog co-editor Amita Monterola with analysis from Cameron Hill and Robin Davies. \n\nCameron unpacks how the government's 2.5% indexation measure is being applied alongside higher-than-expected inflation, producing a cumulative real fall in ODA of around 7% across the forward estimates, a declining ODA/GNI ratio, a widening defence-to-aid spending gap, and further concentration of the program on the Pacific. He also examines cuts to core multilateral funding, including the cessation of contributions to UNAIDS and the Pandemic Fund. Robin then situates these figures globally, noting a 23% fall in ODA from 2024 to 2025 — the steepest annual decline on record — and projects aid could sit roughly 40% below its 2023 peak by 2028. A wide-ranging Q&A covers multilateral effectiveness, ODA graduation, humanitarian adequacy and climate finance."}