Australian: FOREIGN aid gets a $500 million boost to $3.7 billion in 2008-09, fast-tracking the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by putting money behind the Rudd Government’s symbolic embrace of the world body. The aid budget provides $1.3billion of new initiatives over four years, with the focus on poverty alleviation and regional security building. A commitment to invest $200million over four years in partnership with UN agencies marks a departure for a relationship left in the cold by the …