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Old 6th Oct 2003, 09:28
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Al E. Vator
 
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...er, sure...payback time?

Why give 'Aid' to PNG in the first place? Simply stop paying anything at all. There are countless homeless kids or victims of domestic abuse in Australia who could do with better assistance than they get.

Why give it to a bunch of ingrates who use the retort 'redneck' to smokescreen to cover rampant corruption. The classic example of this is Mugabwe - 'his' people are substantially worse off now than they were under Smith but he is an extremely wealthy man.

Are the likes of Somare and his predecessors any different?

Throwing money in the form of aid at PNG is akin to flushing it down the toilet - the people who really need it will continue to suffer and the crooks flourish.

Keep the $ in Australia and let those with misguided attitudes like Winstun work themselves into an indignant stew.

Certainly Winstun "The sooner Australian rednecks achieve keeping their porky noses out of other countries affairs.....the better..." but you would agree that concept wiold entail the rednecks keeping all the money too would it not.

When the $ stop, methinks those sentiments would soon dry up.
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