Haven't we all thought this?
Well, I did a bit of digging into how much Australia ACTUALLY spends on refugees. All I did was google the australin federal budget, and also check out my blog for HEAPS MORE information (if you can be bothered to read it, but if you want to have an INFORMED opinion I recommend you do so)
Check out my findings...
http://staycritical.blogspot.comTOTAL AGGREGATE EXPENDITURE on everything and anything: $354.6 BILLION
This is the total amount of out going cash. The “final” figure on how much money is spent in one year.
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AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE expenditure: $114.9 BILLION
This is the “looking after our own” expenditure. This accounts for 32.5% of the entire spending.
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HOMELESSNESS expenditure: $4.9 BILLION
The current investment in the "White Paper" scheme. This accounts for 1.5% of the entire spending.
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AGED CARE approxmate expenditure: $883.7 million
The above figure is the sum of various (though not all) “Aged Care” initiatives throughout the budget. $36.8m of this is a capital measure, not an expenditure, though in this context they are much the same. This accounts for 0.25% of the total aggregate expenditure.
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AUSTRALIAN SPORTS expenditure: $324.8 million
This money is granted to the Australian Sports Commission. This accounts for 0.092% of the entire spending.
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TOTAL EXPENDITURE ON DETENTION CENTRES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS $ 202.2 million
143 million of that goes towards expanding the detention centres to stop the over crowding. $22 million of that goes towards improving basic amenities (toilets, showers, etc). This isn’t covering the cost of a white picket fence, it’s a cost to provide them with basic human rights while they are being detained and processed.
So sports gets more money than the people running for genocidal countries... is there really that big of a problem with that?