Hasbeen, you are just displaying blatant 'dumb-ass' ignorance and the big 'chip' on your shoulder.

Dani Barrington is speaking more sense, truth and reality than your reactionary ideologue rant - you wouldn't have a clue about AusAID, what it did and what benefits poured back into Australia from it.

The billions of dollars spent on our own Indigeneous people have seen them go backwards. Without spiritual transformation bellies are fed but lifestyles destructive.

Mathew Harris an atheist and columinst for Times very reluctantly came to the conclusion "As an atheist I truely believe that Africa needs God: missionaries not aid money, are the solution to Africa"'s biggest problem - the crushing passivity of people's mindsets. " He writes
'Travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I have been trying to banish all my life, but an observation that I have been unable to avoid since my African childhood. It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my worldview, and has embarassed my belief that their is no God."

He goes on to make a sharp distinction between secular NGO's and the Christians who brought about spiritual transformation in areas. He concludes 'A whole belief system must be supplanted' if we are going to be of any use.

Alas, I don't have air-conditioning in my office. A first world problem, I know.

For Hasbeen:

"if the truth hurts, it is not much use sticking your fingers in your ears & running away, in an effort to avoid facing it ...

You can't hide from the truth mate. All you can do is correct the problems, of (sic) sink out of sight in the mess you create when you ignore it...

Yes it hurts like hell when you lance a boil, but it hurts a hell of a lot more if you just let it fester. Make your choice."

You have obviously festered, Hasbeen.