Should Australia increase or decrease foreign aid spending?
In 2014 the Australian government cut the Foreign Aid Budget to $4 billion. This represented a 29% cut of the previous year’s budget of $5.6 billion. According to the treasury the funds would be redirected to Defence and national security. Proponents of aid cuts say the funds are better used for domestic programs and anti-terror efforts on behalf of the military. Opponents of the cuts argue that the current reduction is too drastic and Australia should match the higher aid spending of other developed countries like the UK.
Spend less money looking for missing planes
@4ZWHNHP3yrs3Y
Keep same, but only give aid to Pacific Islands/PNG
@4ZJVB9W3yrs3Y
Decrease, until no Australian citizen is homeless, and everyone can afford heating in winter and cooling in summer, and 3 healthy meals every day
@97Q6RQ21yr1Y
Decrease, but only to countries that are in need of help, not well funded countries that are fine.
Increase, but only for countries not involved in War, Genocide, or have been internationally denounced.
@9KFCMQW4wks4W
decrease, 917 million dollars to Israel and we have people living In tents on the street. absolute joke
@9KFBZJQ4wks4W
it'd difficult to say because it is unclear how that supposed financial aid is used not to mention the impact on the Australian people.
Australian foreign aid in the pacific should be much higher, as a wealthy and sizeable nation, we should be taking care of 'the little guys' that often fall victim to epidemics such as obesity, natural disaster and
depends where really, it depends on the country we are giving the foreign aid too and if its in our interests do spend foreign aid.
@9JYQZTL1mo1MO
uh we need to like help others yknow but idk really. like if the country is never gonna like get better we should realise that and not spend relief on that yknow.
It depends, maybe increase but make sure we have a lot of money still but if they really need help then help them and maybe get more people to help them too.
increase, yes only if our country economy is capable to supply and our country will not be effected economically
@9JPP8662mos2MO
We should analyse each country we are funding and decide if we need to increase or decrease individually
@9JKG8RG2mos2MO
Continue aiding where it is possible, but stop funding the Ukrainian regime. We are not going to support the regime there any longer.
@9HF5C4C4mos4MO
I think it depends under circumstances if the country is in war if we give aid to one side and not the other we could put ourselves at risk.
@9GNGFRP5mos5MO
More information is required before making a decision, such as proportion of overall budget, how aid will be distributed, recipient criteria, how cuts would affect current recipients, proposal of new defence spending. .
@98MVNZ51yr1Y
Decrease, but maintain the same for developing countries.
@98H9BZZ1yr1Y
Increase pending the impact on cost of living for Australia’s
@987BL561yr1Y
Increase wherever strategically advantageous
@97ZHCMG1yr1Y
We need to participate in funding to help where there is sudden crisis. I believe 75% our own backyard and 25% toward other countries in crisis. If every country did this it would work
@97XN3JT1yr1Y
Increase the amount of money going towards countries that really need it
@96HTVY31yr1Y
Increase, but only for countries that have no human rights violation, are a victim of a war and deny aid to countries that harbour or promote terrorism.
@964VVWY1yr1Y
Keep aid the same for now
@95Q9VYF2yrs2Y
Increase it for countries that don't have any human rights violation and decrease for countries who harbour or promote terrorism
Help other countries who have supported us or other countries in need
@93Y3BRYOne Nation2yrs2Y
Only for counties with that that need human rights attention, despite their government.
@93VBF6W2yrs2Y
depends ln how rich the country is
@93R3M8Y2yrs2Y
Aid should be proportionate to capacity
@93JNG3T2yrs2Y
No aid use it for homeless build house
@93H84R72yrs2Y
Redistribute funds to the people in countries, instead of directing to their government
@93GJJHJ2yrs2Y
Depends, if the country is in desperate need and no one is aiding it, then we should increase spending, but other than that, it doesn't seem necessary.
@93D3ZHL2yrs2Y
Decrease, we should help our own country first before we help any other country.
@93CSMTR2yrs2Y
Increase in necessary situations
@939Y7HZ2yrs2Y
foreign aid spending should depend on the needs of Australia at the time. if we need the money to put into bettering our country then it should be decreased.
@939Y7CJ2yrs2Y
Depends on the state of our own country, and also what the state of the country in question that we are providing aid to.
@938425Q2yrs2Y
Increase, Trade with lots of different countries so a conflict with a trading partner won't cause as much harm to the economy as it would if you only had 1 or 2
Increase Foreign Aid spending, and spend it actually creating resources owned and controlled by the people the aid is given to. Do not give foreign governments aid since this often gets lost in corruption.
@9366BTW2yrs2Y
only if we get the sport back.
@935QTRQ2yrs2Y
Less, and spend more money on our own army
@935JK332yrs2Y
Decrease to countries such as US, more to developing nations.
Decrease, we need to deal with providing aid to those in need within Australia
@9355RJN2yrs2Y
We should aid countries that are in need and perhaps even increase spending in certain cases, and instea dof lowering it to those that promote terrorisim, instead aid the citizens suffering in those countries.
@9352ZTN2yrs2Y
Increase, but only to countries that have a proven track record of using the foreign aid purely to truly aid the country the aid is sent to
@934Z5Q42yrs2Y
Decrease - funding should go towards supporting hardships in own country, but go to lower socioeconomic countries when in serious crisis/war (have a set budget)
@934WNCD2yrs2Y
Increase but not to countries promoting terrorism and human rights violations
Yes with a focus on our neighbours
@934R5VM2yrs2Y
Look after our own people first before giving away money to other countries in need.
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