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Oz election - Oz World Vision head backs Opposition Labor AID; "matter of life and death"

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World Vision World CEO & brother of Bush-ite Coalition Deputy PM: "extra funding that Labor has committed to aid, if delivered, could allow funding of programs that could reduce child deaths by 140,000 each year".

Key quote: "I am not campaigning for Kevin Rudd [Opposition Labor leader] in this federal election. And equally I am not campaigning against the Government, the Prime Minister, or my brother [the Deputy PM] . But I have bought into the election campaign because I believe the issue of overseas aid and the position of the two major parties is critical. Indeed it is a matter of life and death."

Comment: 16 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation and associated disease, about 10 million being under-5 year old infants (see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950": (see: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ ).

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While White Australia is morally obliged to give "aid" to Third World countires it is LEGALLY obliged under the Geneva Convention and Rights of the Child Conventions to provide life-sustaining requisites to its Indigenous SUBJECTS, whether Indigenous Australian (Aborigines; 9,000 die avoidably each year; 90,000 have died avoidably in the 11 years of the racist Coalition Government) or Indigenous Subjects in Australian-occupied countries (post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories 2.0 million and 3.2 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.6 million and 2.2 million, respectively; refugees 4 million and 3.7 million , respectively).

Indigenous Australians are horribly deprived and their medical services are funded at about half of what they should be. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the "annual total per capita medical expenditure" permitted in Occupied Iraq by the US Coalition is $135 (2004) as compared to $19 (Occupied Afghanistan), $2,560 (UK), $3,123 (Australia) and $6,096 (the US) (see "United State Terrorism. 8 million deaths & media holocaust denial": link ).

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Reply#1 - Sun Nov 4, 2007 4:43 PM EST
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GP, please could you give references for this statement of yours:

Indigenous Australians are horribly deprived and their medical services are funded at about half of what they should be.
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    Reply#2 - Tue Nov 6, 2007 1:47 AM EST
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