Dear Foxy,

Thank you for summing up so eloquently.
As always, you manage to inject a little balance into the discussion.

My colleagues at the Sahana Software Foundation have created the "Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal", with feeds from relief agencies and software to help coordinate the relief effort for the earthquake: http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/

Sahana is an free open source disaster management system originally set up by the Sri Lanka government and IT industry after the Indian Ocean tsunami.

You can see it right here. Australia is not Melbourne and Sydney. They ignore the plunder of their own lands. Foreign companies polluting Indigenous soil, invading Indigenous lands and leaving behind a trail of poverty. If Australia is to be responsible for the welfare of traditional owners then we must ban foreign ownership of our resources and allow more of the riches to flow through to their communities.

If we cannot see it here then we will surely be blind to same fate of others. The current economy is not based where the money is, it is remotely controlled from major cities well distanced away with all the comforts indecency allows.