I'm pretty confident that you do give generously to charities.
Forget about the humanitarian components and think of it as insurance then. We have spent and continue to spend god knows how much money in Iraq, Afghanistan fighting the "war on terror", $75m to making Pakistan less unstable is money well spent.
Foreign aid is usually determined by self interest.
In 1970, the world?s rich countries agreed to give 0.7% of their gross national income as official international development aid, annually.
We seem to be big on promises but not to good on delivering.
The Coalition and Labor both agreed in this election campaign to lift Australia's contribution to a massive 0.5% by 2015.
