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Old 11-Jan-2005, 10:19 AM in reply to Penny's post "NZ to pledge up to $100 Million to..."
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Default re: NZ to pledge up to $100 Million to Tsunami Aid

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Originally Posted by Penny
The full story is here http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3152288a10,00.html

but it pretty much says that we will pledge to give them $20 mill a year for 3 years, extending it to 5 if nessecary.

That seems like quite allot given the size of our country, and when we have other areas that could use the money. I didn't realise we had $100 mill just lying around.
It seems to me that most of the world is under some kind of geo-political peer pressure not to be the country that seems unkind and stingy when it comes to Sunami aide.
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