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This is the handsome Ash, a 6 month old fluffy, pale ginger boy. He has exquisite looks and is the most laid back and coolest cat in the shelter. He’s a real smoocher and adores being cuddled and fussed over. To meet him & our other beautiful cats & kittens, visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley St, Mullumbimby. Open: Tues 2.30–4.30pm, Thurs 3–5pm, Sat 10–12 noon. Call AWL 6684 4070.
COMPANION ANIMALS WELFARE INC. DOBBIE is a ginger boy. There is something very special about ginger cats, such great personalities, and Dobbie will not disappoint. Delightful friendly and easy going personality. Just adores human company, but sadly he never gets enough spending his days in the centre. Here he is giving that very appealing ‘come and get me look’, and he’d like you to know that he is very warm and cosy to cuddle up to. All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.
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Why no-one faints in art galleries in London Daniel Sage
Charity begins at home, they say (in an election year for sure), but how do you help others when you need help yourself? It’s a tough line for politicos. Is the UK government’s odd silence actually a medical condition? Like an awkward child kept hidden out of sight in case its behaviour causes outrage, this week’s best-kept secret in Britain is that we fulfilled our charity aid commitments overseas to the tune of twenty billion dollars. A squeak of a tweet from deputy prime minister Nick Clegg – in a caption beneath a shot of him having tea with Bill Gates – shared the news, which was then hardly mentioned anywhere in any other press. Suppressed almost. A pledge of 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) has stood since 1969 when a group of rich northern European countries came together under the proud but littleused banner of G07 nations. This year that means £11.4bn (A$20.3bn) given by the UK to poorer nations in Africa and Asia, up nearly a third from last year. Scandinavian countries routinely star at the top of the giving table, at around one per cent of GNI. The average industrialised country donation is 0.46 per cent. In 1976, Australia committed to 0.47 per cent, a figure slashed repeatedly under the Hawke and Keating governments and then further under John Howard until he doubled it in 2005. Okay, enough statistics. Substantial aid is a beautiful promise but
Self-styled Afronaut. From an art project about the ill-fated Namibian space project in the 1960s. Nowadays, poor countries want space programs to launch satellites. Source: Christina de Middel
not an easy one to keep. And there are critics everywhere. Too much money is spent on flimsy projects, they cry; too much wasted on pricey consultants; donor countries use their own firms for services and procurement. The list goes on, detailing all the many foibles humans are prey to, as if a reminder is needed in case charity and kindness get out of hand. And this is before we even get to the bone of contention du jour. For the last seven years the economic
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crisis has hit British pockets hard. Austerity is the watchword, a concept easier to deal with in blackand-white photos and when rooted in the past. The public appetite to send charity anywhere but home is practically nil. Hands are held out here wherever you turn. What about the flooding? What about our many have-nots? What about education, schools, welfare, street policing, immigrants… everything basically? Anyway, those other countries don’t
seem too bad on TV. Poverty comes and goes. Aren’t their carbon emissions getting too high? But sometimes the arguments can be hard to fault. Six of the nations receiving aid from the UK have active space programs: Nigeria, Pakistan, China, India, Ethiopia and Bangladesh. Satellites for communications makes sense for economic growth but also makes an easy target. The whole noble arrangement is much clouded, and no wonder it stirs high feeling. We are one of nature’s supremely adaptable species, and in the West have understandably adapted to our comforts. The present austerity is nothing like the Great Depression of the 1930s but it pains us all the same. I’m proud we still find resources to give to those much worse off, and perhaps the government is wise to keep quiet about it. Better charity than disparity but better quiet than a riot. If taxes were paid fairly by all the overseas firms operating in Britain and based in London, the figures would be about the same. London puts so much effort into remaining an attractive place to do business, it tolerates a lot of nonsense other cities have regulations for, such as the vacant rent tax imposed on empty foreign-owned property in New York, or the bonus caps rolling out across the EU. Perhaps it’s the unwillingness to put lofty sentiments above all others that makes this place safe to visit. It’s a sort of extreme inverted snobbery. We give generously, but don’t want to talk about it. If we do talk about it we complain endlessly and
may try to take some or all back. An outsider might faint from moral exhaustion. Which could be just the sort of medical condition we’re missing. Places where art and culture are the number-one draw can be home to peculiar health hazards. Paris, Jerusalem, Florence to name a few. Around twenty Japanese tourists in Paris, for example, are hospitalised every year with the condition called Paris Syndrome. Hallucinations, anxiety, and delusions of persecution are common. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon. Much older is Stendhal Syndrome, which affects visitors to Florence who faint in the Uffizi gallery, overwhelmed by the great beauty. In Jerusalem, various forms of psychosis can occur suddenly and in people with no previous history of illness and across all religious groups. The theme is more religious here; sufferers get up to all sorts of antics – improvised sermons, trying to convert people, praying loudly in public. They are cured by leaving town, and after few weeks return to normal (the cure is the same for the other conditions). It even affected Homer Simpson when he travelled to Israel in the episode The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed. So, we’re not doing too badly. People speak English and you can find a decent cup of tea. Just don’t ask for any donations. And, more seriously, don’t stand on the left on escalators. I wouldn’t care to guess how many visitors end up needing medical treatment and it wouldn’t be from fainting.
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