1 billion for indonesia?, page-10

I totally agree with spending the money, whoever benefits.
Our needs in Australia are peanuts compared with our impoverished and traumatised neighbours to the north.

There are many in the moslem world (eg. Fundamentalist terrorists) have a stereotype understanding of the West. Anything we can do, whatever the cost financially, has got to be good in the long term - better than having to waste money by having to build up extra defences against suspicious neighbours.