http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/australia-to-increase-aid-to-afghanistan-20120708-21pkg.html
22 million people ... 250 million a year ... so that me giving $11.37 to them a year personally ... probably more since I pay twice the tax of an average household.
Enjoy it ... educate the kids not to shoot at us ... or the yanks.
AUSTRALIA has signed a new four-year aid agreement with Afghanistan that will take support for the government beyond the pullout of troops in 2014 in return for commitments about electoral reform, human rights and the rights of women.
Signing the deal in Tokyo yesterday, the Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, said it would lift Australia's contribution from $165 million to $250 million a year by 2015-16, making Australia Afghanistan's sixth-biggest donor.
''We are leading the way with the United States, Germany and Japan,'' Mr Carr said from the 70-nation conference. ''This is the broadest coalition in human history. Russia, China, Pakistan, India - they are all part of a coalition standing for a sovereign Afghanistan.
''Contrary to what's most probably the public impression, there has been progress. In Uruzgan Province, where Australia's commitment is focused, there are now more than 200 schools, up from about 30 a decade ago, and now there are 30 dedicated girls schools, when there were none before. There are now millions of females in Afghanistan's school system, whereas a decade ago there were thousands.''