Dissent Silenced: Aidwatch
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Silencing Dissent... fly away? (image: Michael Leunig, The Age)
This week The Sydney Morning Herald has run an article commenting on the Australian Federal Government's claimed Aid Budget and the creative accounting being employed to whitewash our minimal assistance through aid despite the massive income streams we currently get (of course, this is completely due to the Federal Government's single handling of the international economy, in addition to the Australian one). The article was based on a report released by Aidwatch, which is (to quote):
...a not for profit activist organisation monitoring and campaigning on Australian overseas aid and trade policies and ...
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