Britain has recently decided to stop overseas aid to India. It
had become untenable for the Government to take money from
British taxpayers to subsidise a nuclear power with a space
program.  Saving Asia one little flag at a time  It’s time
Australia took a similar, hard-nosed approach to overseas aid.
If the Asian Century means anything, it means Australians
realising that the hubris, paternalism, and sentimentalism
reflected in an old style ‘first-world helping out the third-
world’ aid program is anachronistic.  Mutual economic and social
benefit must be the criterion for any investment of Australian
funds in another country. Leveraging and increasing Australian
strengths must be the strategy.  Here are the three key elements
of a radically revamped, strategic, overseas investment program:
We should fund our major universities to provide facilities,
programs and linked scholarships in cities across South Asia, SE
Asia and E Africa A major focus of this investment should be
around agricultural, medical, and