Thank you Mr Barnett

[the_great_she_elephant]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-07/colin-barnett-wants-up-to-1000-syrian-refugees-sent-to-wa/6755...

I'm not a fan of our current State Government, but Ido  believe in giving credit where credit is due and I was delighted to see the above headline in today's paper.It's not a huge offer,  but it's positive, it's proactive and it  makes me feel proud to be a Waussie.

[j*oono]

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@languidlady49 wrote:

I don't think our Colin would be too happy being called Kevin

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Sorry Languidlady.  It's not the first time I've mistakenly called him Kevin.  I seem to have a mental blank over his name.

[bluecat*dancing]

There is, and has been for years, a network of people, Australia wide, who are willing, and do, house refugees and would gladly house asylum seekers, if the goverment would allow it.

[bluecat*dancing]

Good on Colin Barnett for finally doing something right.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@bluecat*stopsdancing wrote:

There is, and has been for years, a network of people, Australia wide, who are willing, and do, house refugees and would gladly house asylum seekers, if the goverment would allow it.

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they need to be more vocal like 

the people in icleland who started

a facebook campaign.

knowing specific numbers would be good.

 it seems like it may have influenced the

icelandic government to increase the number

from initially offering to take 50 refugees over

the next couple of years. 

One of the 11,000 volunteers, Hekla Stefansdottir, posted in response: “I’m a single mother with a six-year-old son ... We can take a child in need. I’m a teacher and would teach the child to speak, read and write Icelandic and adjust to Icelandic society.

where are the aussies??

[the_great_she_elephant]

This is what  people are doing in the little country town in East Anglia where my sister and BIL live.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=881907825228198&set=gm.1667248246853024&type=1&theater

(not sure if you'll be able to see it if you're not on Facebook, but basically they are organising a 'fill a rucksack' campaign. It kinda restores your faith in human nature to se so many ordinary people rising to the occasion.)

[raptor_rebooted]

i think that is really kind but offering a place

to stay had a bigger impact.  it changed a 

government's  decision. 

aussies are known for their generosity.

going a step further would've been good

to see.

[raptor_rebooted]

Australia is the most generous country on earth, according to a new global index of giving.

The World Giving Index 2012, compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), an international charity which promotes charitable giving via companies and individuals, found Australia topped the 2012 table, and also headed a new five year index which looks at giving between 2007 and the most recent year of fieldwork, 2011.

i dont think much has changed

since 2012.