poirot: Jayb will attempt to daub his usual rubbish in reference to my "overseas child sponsorship".

I had absolutely no idea you sponsored children anywhere.

If it one of those Sponsor Children Charities I be a bit wary if I were you. I had some people knock on my door the other day & wanted me to sponsor a child in Kenya. I looked at it & asked them to wait. I collect those cards. I found the exact same child from some 20 years ago from Ethiopia on a Save the Children Campaign. I showed them the card & they said they didn't know & it possibly wouldn't be that exact child I'd be sponsoring.

So I do some checking if I were you. Those Charities are usually a Scam like the one from the ATO on Channel 9 tonight.

I was just about to send this when I remembered something about the Save the Children Scam. The Scam was exposed on one of the Current Affair Programmes a few years ago. A Group of people met at a Caravam Park found they had all been sponsoring the same child & getting all exactly the same personal letters & photographs from this child for years. The TV Channel did some checking & found hundreds of people with the same child, letters & photographs from the same Charity.

Increasing terror attacks, There are Multiple times more killed on our roads, but that gets a very subdued response. Butch You have been radicalized by Abbott. You need to get over that it is not good for your wellbeing.

We have a very stable govt; in place now, and well placed to handle our safety. The last two years were a total loss, and now we can get on with the job.

It is best to have faith in our authorities rather than Rambo groups that think it is best to go by violence. These mobs are just as bad as a terrorist organization, and should be under the same banner.

Best we leave it to Mal and bill that is our best hope.

I am in Fiji at the moment and anyone interested in sponsorship programs there are a couple of good ones here both child and village based sponsorship. Of a more long term benefit is the 'rice growing program' rice as a cash crop 85% is imported. Australians failed 20 years ago but the new program is using an adaptation of the Thai growing method and is proving successful in wet lands and hopefully also soon in "dry" lands as well. With sponsorship a good Org will always allow contact between both parties school
village visits etc supervised contact. An Australian millionaire businessman I met this trip puts his money into teeth, costs about $2k per child max I know he put $80k into that program alone last year puts lots in, no fuss no tax dodge.

Paul1405,

Just as a heads-up, there is NO way I would be putting money into any traditional method of rice production because of the serious long-term environmental problems, including production of large quantities of Methane (CH4).

Then there are the serious problems to human health of mosquitoes and snails and the pesticides used.

Like some others on OLO you are forever bagging Australia - failed you say.

However what never seems to cross your mind is that Australian farming and hopefully the millions of dollars of international aid (aid of which the country you mention is also a large beneficiary), is modern, highly efficient and has an eye for sustainability and locals' health.

Now, about that $2,000 max per child for teeth, doesn't it strike you that someone might be having a lend of you?

What about these clearly 'green' doctors who say that the are going to hang onto the children of illegals in their care? What about the breathless idiots who think that doctors have a say in in immigration and border-protection policies? What about the fact that we do not split children from their families (and these same useful idiots condemn the removal of aboriginal children from their dysfunctional families?) Do we also release the parents who are not suitable people to stay in Australia? Do these 'useful idiot' doctors not know that they are presenting a new business plan to people smugglers? Boat loads of unaccompanied children preparing the way for their parents to come here under family reunion (can't split up families, you know).

Send in police to return these children to the detention centres to be with their parents.

Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull finally granted an abortion for a refugee rape victim from Nauru detention centre. But now another women who says she was attacked has been named by police. Louise Burke reports

The decision to grant a 23-year-old Somali refugee - raped on the offshore detention centre Nauru - an abortion was the only acceptable outcome, after a week of high media scrutiny and public outcry.
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Government deserves some credit for coming to its senses and transferring her to Australia on Sunday.
But, as one injustice was being remedied against this poor woman, another was being committed against a second alleged rape victim on the women’s island prison.
Nauru police investigating the case of a 26-year-old Somali woman - whose distress call to police to report being raped and bashed by two local men was broadcast by ABC - reportedly named her in a public statement via an Australian PR company