1. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS CHRISTINE MICHAEL

2. GOAL #1: ERADICATE EXTREME HUNGER AND POVERTY 4 year 464 million dollar food security, aims to assist the continents of Asia and Africa. Initiatives focus on: -Lifting agricultural productivity -Improving rural livelihoods -Building community resilience

3. GOAL #2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION -Improve the functioning of national education systems to enable more girls and boys to complete primary school and progress to higher levels of education -Improve the relevance and quality of education, including in vocational and technical education, so students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for life and productive employment.

4. GOAL #3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN -Women are given economic opportunities with the support of Australia: Through Australian support to the UN development program 5288 women in Nepal were able to set up their own businesses. -Australia have helped more girls go to school: 2009, Australia gave opportunity to the girls of Bangladesh who had never been enrolled or gone to school the opportunity to attend school. More than 700 000 students. -Australia has helped women who have been subject to violence: In Fiji, Australia has given support to the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC), provided counselling and support to over 1802 women who had been subject to violence.

5. GOAL #4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY Australia have helped strengthen the health of those living in remote areas, women and children on the outskirts of Kiribati gained better access to health care through a joint Australia, UN population fund and the European union assisted program. -Supported the Addis Abba Fistula program in Ethiopia. -Australia supported and assisted women in PNG suffering of AIDS through National Gender Policy and Plan. -Fewer children now dying to vitamin A deficiency in Nepal. 3.7 million children between 08-09 have been provided with vitamin A. Preventing the deaths of over 15 000 children.

6. GOAL #5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH -Bangladesh, saved womens’ lives by presence of skilled health workers and improved health facilities. Australia has supported the training of these birth attendants and midwives in the Asia Pacific region over the past ten years. -Australia ensured that in Cambodia in 2009 that there was atl east one midwife in every hospital in the country.

7. GOAL #6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES Australia concentrates on helping those in countries especially women and children by: -Targeting major causes of child mortality and morbidity -Making a strong contribution in the family planning and reproductive health sector on the basis of a voluntary and non coercive policy -Improving HIV prevention and care activities.

8. GOAL #7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLITY Australia has committed significant resources to combat the effect of climate change in Kyoto and Copenhagen.