So basically, JF Aus, you want to put the whole of the Solomon Islands onto the Australian Dole system so that Solomon Island people can sit under a palm tree & soak up the beautiful tropical atmosphere. Is that it?

No, that's not it, Jaybe.
SI people are good workers. And they are our neighbors.

Like everybody else, people work well when fairly paid.
And these people don't ask for much.
They despise their own need for aid.

No Jayb, JF Aus wants a bunch of Oz public servants & do gooders, paid to go & support the islanders, not to sit under a palm tree, but to breed even more, so they overpopulate their environment to an even greater extent.

This is ever the "aid" system. The population expands beyond the regions capacity to support it. This assures more & more aid, dispensed by more & more aid workers is required. It is a growth industry for NGOs who can justify ever increasing salaries for their staff, as their numbers explode.

JF in the 70 I escorted their puny little canoes on trips to traditional fishing grounds, villagers frequented when they still built the large sailing canoes.

I ran wife swapping trips for them, when there were none left they could marry on their island, for the same reason. I should have been pushing them into building the old style big canoes, not helping them avoid the effort.

I have seen the number of canoes & houses on some islands & knew the region could never support that level of population.

On Google earth I can see plantations going back to scrub. If copra price falls of course you sit on your butt & cry. You would never plant palm oil palms, to replace the coconuts, as the thriving Kimbe area of new Britain has, now would you. Nah, lets get the Ozzies to give more aid, that's the shot.

It's a good thing there wasn't much aid when Oz was settled, or we would all be sitting, crying, in Sydney, waiting for more aid

Jf Aus,
It's been a long time since I have read such idiotic rambling. Go to the Solomons & help them help themselves as should be done in many communities here. Stop wasting time & space & move over there. You'll soon learn how your ideology will be dealt with. Just don't come crawling back here.

Quote "in Afghanistan, $3.5 million would be enough to recruit and train enough health workers to provide community-based healthcare to the entire population."

Are you for real after the corrupt Government officials and then tribal leaders took there cut you may be left with $3.50.

REALITY CHECK NEEDED

Quote "First, Australia is a wealthy country with an insignificant refugee population"
WHEN approx 85% are all on welfare and we have a projected figure of 30,000 arriving next year THAT IS A BIG PROBLEM.

Not 1 homeless refugee THOUSANDS of homeless Australians.