Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

Govt pledges $30 million in food aid for global food shortage

"Australia will provided $30 million in emergency aid to help meet the critical food shortage in developing countries. The Federal Government is responding to an appeal by the United Nations World Food Program for extra money to counter a steep global rise in the cost of food.
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The Government says it is also boosting its efforts to address the causes of food insecurity in developing countries."

This is a perfect illustration of the short sightedness and anti-realism that will make issues like the global food shortages worse in the long term. Food is getting more expensive and the poorest are missing out because of a simple fact that can be reflected in economic terms: Demand is outstripping supply.

We are nearing 7 billion people on this planet, predicted to reach around 9.5 billion by 2050 if the planet's oil/food/resources don't run out before this. This is insane and reflects a humanity out of balance with its sorroundings, which is reflected by the current food crisis. The only thing that temporary band-aid solutions like throwing millions in food money at those most in need does is reward a hideously out of balance state of human affairs, creating more demand, higher prices, and ultimetaly more suffering and war for the long term. There needs to be less people on this planet, especially in regions where population is most out of control.

Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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