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| Subject: OZschwitz concentration camp: They are spending money to institutionalise and damage people, to make them suicidal Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:49 pm | |
| THE government has promised that ''core payments'' to non-government agencies and funding for groups critical to humanitarian crisis will not be hit by the diversion of up to $375 million to support asylum seekers being processed in Australia.
As protests grew, a spokesman for Foreign Minister Bob Carr said there would be ''deferral or delay'' in some aid spending.
The opposition pointed out that Australia had made itself the third largest recipient of its own aid - after Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
The government claimed the diversion was not a ''cut'' and said the allocation of some funds to provide food, clothing and shelter for refugees was consistent with previous Australian government practice.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/foreign-aid-shift-draws-protests-20121218-2bl8o.html#ixzz2FTDMiY4a
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