Asylum seekers are more important than Australians...

Hello dear readers. I would like to share with you all this anonymous email I received today and let you make your own assumptions about its content...

You do the math Australia...  

February 5 2013: Gillard contributes $1 million the Queensland Flood Appeal.

So here’s what Julia Gillard and Bob Carr have given away, of your money, since the Australia Day long weekend, the weekend when tropical storm Oswald smashed Bundaberg.

February 11 2013: Gillard contributes $15 million to rehabilitate 40 kilometres of main road in South Tarawa, Kiribati, which has been undermined by rising sea levels and coastal erosion. Note: There has been no sea level rise along the Kiribati coast. 

February 4 2013: Gillard contributes $5 million to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) South Sudan. 

February 4 2013: Gillard contributes an additional $3 million in humanitarian assistance for people are still reeling from the impact of Typhoon Bopha in the southern Philippines. 

31 January 2013: Bob Carr today pledged a further $10 million in humanitarian assistance for people affected by the worsening conflict in Syria. 

30 January 2013: Bob Carr today pledged $15 million to provide better access to education for the boys and girls of Myanmar. 

30 January 2013: Bob Carr has pledged $5 million in humanitarian assistance for Mali and the surrounding region to assist hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflict and food insecurity. 

25 January 2013: Gillard provides a further $2 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). 

25 January 2013: Gillard announced a further $2 million to help (Fijian) children get back to school in the first term of the school year following the devastation of Tropical Cyclone Evan late last year. 

So between the Australia Day long weekend and 11th February 2013, Gillard & Co has given away $57 million to various foreign aid beneficiaries. I’m sure the Queensland flood victims could have used the $57 million to help them out? 

In all about 4224 properties were damaged with 2302 deemed uninhabitable. More than half of those uninhabitable properties, about 1321, are in Bundaberg. 

And to really rub salt in the wound, on 8th February 2013, Gillard re-prioritised up to$375.1 million in Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the 2012–13 financial year to support asylum seekers waiting to have their claims heard in Australia. The support will cover food, shelter and other essential items.

The re-prioritisation represents a small portion (around 7 per cent) of Australia’s total aid program, which is still expected to reach around $5.2 billion in the 2012–13 financial year and is consistent with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Reporting Directives.