Foxy my sweet, I know you believe that, & it would be a nice feeling to be able to agree with you. Unfortunately with what experience I have, I'm afraid I just can't.

I never saw a single instance of foreign aid doing a single bit of good anywhere. I did see it doing quite a bit of harm, particularly with the Ozzie people involved in it.

Foxy - Quote "Foreign aid contributes to foreign countries being
stable and better governed and that in turn means that we are less likely to be adversely affected by their problems (our military budget can be decreased)."

If you believe that you have my sympathy.

Foreign aid allows Indonesia and some other countries to spend more money on there military while we spend our money on there people.

Indonesia are buying helicopter gunships and missiles, the more aid we give them the more of there own money they can use to buy them.

A lot of countries re-package the food aid to make it seem like it comes from there own government.

Foreign aid is given and withdrawn for POLITICAL reasons, do as I say or we will stop the aid.

Large proportions of foreign aid goes to corrupt officials.

Please wake up to the real world.

Hi Lexi,

Thanks for your efforts in paraphrasing UN puff piece brochure No. c12r for us (below):
<< Foreign aid contributes to foreign countries being
stable and better governed and that in turn means
that we are less likely to be adversely affected
by their problems>>

and for citing this bit simplistic left-think nonsense:
<<"Actually there seems to be quite an irony that a party
that complains about the burden of refugees to our
country increasing the likelihood of an increase in global
numbers of refugees.">>

Unfortunately the reality is Australia's aid could be 100 times what it is/was and it still wouldn't dent the flow of "refugees" to our shores or elsewhere. However, it might be helpful if those who push such lines took their own advice- and read more widely!

Some of the very best millionaires give millions.
Some of the true poor give what they truly can not afford.
But room exists to understand far too much aid is not getting to its intended people.
And in some cases we see the same crisis ten years after we helped fix it.
I am pro giving but anti waste.
We are heading for tough times for some of our own, how can we not see that?
Labor too cut some funding.

Hasbeen, said "never saw a single instance of foreign aid doing a single bit of good anywhere. I did see it doing quite a bit of harm"
Its a pity people like you don't open their eyes and "SEE". You know nothing, talking from blind ignorance.
In Fiji last year Australian aid paid for over 8,000 child vaccinations against measles,diphtheria, tetanus, and Hepatitis B. On a recent visit to that country I seen children being given their shots. But of course you know better sitting in you lounge room, you know it all, you know nothing.
Australia has promised to deliver 110,000 doses of rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccine to Fiji this year alone, hopefully these proposed cuts will not affect this program for people who badly need this vaccine.
If you don't think people can't make a difference then check out this site;

http://www.fijikids.org/

I know how much the people running this organisation get paid and its not enough to buy a cup of coffee. Its totally voluntary but to satisfy the non givers and to justify their thinking, they all get paid a million dollars

If all the struggling economies of Europe
can met their obligations in regard to
foreign aid, then why can't we with an
economy that's currently the envy of the world.
This is hard to understand - especially when
our foreign aid was such a small amount.

However, those who have no room for compassion and
believe in the ideology -
that people should either sink or swim, and if they sink,
we'll that's too bad. This is not a philosophy that I
can take seriously - (no matter what names I'm
called by the gentlemen, and deep-thinkers, of this forum).