Papua New Guinea is pushing for all of Australia's aid to the country to be channelled directly through the national budget by 2020.
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More than $US375 million is being pumped into PNG by Australian Aid annually but not in the way the PNG government wants.
PNG's Minister of National Planning Charles Abel said PNG wanted trade not aid and it needed a mutually beneficial trade and investment partnership with Australia.
The Post Courier newspaper reported he made the request at a forum for the countries' ministers in Madang on Wednesday.
The minister said the PNG government had established its plans and targets and it wanted Australia to work through them with PNG.
PNG is the biggest recipient of Australian Aid accounting for more than 50 per cent of Australia's assistance to the Pacific.
