Australia As A Global Citizen Essay

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Australia as a Global Citizen
P1 Intro- Australia is a global citizen and contributes a lot of time, effort and money into helping the rest of the world out primarily when in time of need. We contribute greatly to the United Nations security council during our terms of being a member of the council. We also have a foreign aid policy that means we must help other countries primarily neighbouring countries which are struck with disaster and unable to support themselves or trying to help get those countries out of poverty. We donate a lot of money towards the United Nations and help contribute to global matters that the United Nations deals with.
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The main focus of the foreign aid program is to reduce poverty and increase the economic growth of other countries. We invest money into the private sectors of other countries in which we build better buildings and better business environments which on the long run will increase the economy for the country if the businesses that were supported succeed and will leave room for the government to improve the nation. We also support the growth in specific markets a that can help the poor become a consumer, producer or employee. We are currently more focused on help Papua New Guinea at this current time which is where most of our foreign aid is going to followed by Indonesia which we help build schools and fund students education, so they can get an educated population that can contribute to society. We also help undeveloped countries get a safe place to drink water by building wells and taps that get water to them. We also send over medical supplies and send over vaccines to prevent the spread of any diseases that would be in those areas. This all shows that Australia is a good global citizen with its foreign aid policy helping nearby countries start to work on getting out of poverty and increase their

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