As stated in the post dated 8 December 2018, the ANU’s Development Policy Centre announced that, ‘Now in its sixth year, the Australasian Aid Conference will once again bring together
researchers and development practitioners from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia,
and beyond.’

See: http://www.devpolicy.org/events/event/2019-australasian-aid-conference/

“Beyond” includes Africa which is normally lucky to get as much attention as Vanuatu. However, this year the program includes several mentions of Africa and Africanists, as follows:

Day One February 19th, 2019, 9.40-10.30am
Keynote address – The future of Africa
Molonglo Theatre [Overflow: Weston Theatre] Dr Donald Kaberuka, Former President, African Development Bank and Rwanda’s Minister of Finance’

PRESENTERS

‘Transdisciplinary research for food and nutrition security: experiences from work in Africa and Southeast Asia’, Federico Davila, Research Principal – Food Systems, University of Technology Sydney

‘Public-private partnerships – working at the coal face with African governments to truly break the cycle of poverty’, Cassandra Treadwell, CEO and Founder, So They Can

 SESSION CHAIRS
Jane Kennedy, Associate Director – Asia and Africa, UnitingWorld

Aime Saba, Information Management Office – Food Security Cluster, World Food Programme

Robyn Alders, Senior Scientific Advisor, Centre for Global Health Security