The conundrum of foreign aid

By Michael Koziol
Updated March 20 2017 - 12:43pm, first published 12:38pm

It starts at the boarding lounge in Brisbane. Men: white, middle-aged, dull. They flash their passports: German, British, Australian. On the plane they brandish paraphernalia for various mining companies: oil, gas, maybe gold. A New Zealander is going to spend two weeks fixing wells at petrol stations. Fly in, fly out. Quickly.

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