Australia pledges $764 million in tsunami aid

[Bluebear]

This is really cramping Bush's style, what with flying about the country trying to payback his insurance company contributors via malpractice lawsuit caps while the world tries to cope with a disaster.


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JAKARTA (AFP) - Australia jumped to the forefront of the international drive to help victims of Asia's tsunami disaster with a billion-dollar (764-million US) aid offer aimed at rebuilding devastated areas of neighboring Indonesia....

The contribution by Australia, a nation of just 20 million, outstripped other government's aid offers to countries hit by the December 26 catastrophe, when a massive earthquake off Indonesia's island of Sumatra triggered tsunami waves which devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050105/wl_asia_afp/asiaquakeaustralia_050105192101