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Any budget cuts in Australia's overseas aid allocation would have resulted in the poor developing countries carrying part of the burden of maintaining living conditions in Australia, according to Australian Catholic Relief.
( In Tuesday's budget overseas Mr Whiteley said inflation and devaluaa id rose by 11.3% from $640.8 to tion had had a serious effect, not only on $ 713 mi l l ion.) aid programmes operated by the governMr Michael Whitely, national director ment, but also on those run by nonof Australian Catholic Relief, said he had government agencies. made these observations in a pre-budget In his Budget speech, the Treasurer, Mr submission to the Treasurer, M Howard said priority would continue to be given to bilateral assistance to Papua Howard. Mr Whiteley pointed out that a deliber- New Guinea, South-East Asia and the ate, gradual devaluation of the dollar South Pacific region. over the past 12 months had been imple- In addition, Mr Howard said continuing mented to aid the Australian economy. support would also be given to various If this devaluation then resulted in a "multilateral and regional organisareduction in the amount of money availa- tions." ble for overseas aid, it could rightly be The further assistance excludes the cost said that the poor were paying for our of educating and training several thousand students from developing countries prosperity. It was an illustration of the fact that the who attend various tertiary and other same economic machinery which created training institutions in Australia. wealth in Australia, created poverty in This will cost about $52 million in 1982. Australia also provides other forms of underdeveloped countries. Mr Whiteley told the treasurer a 20% indirect economic aid through contribuincrease in the overseas aid allocation tions to the regular budgets of internawould be necessary in order to maintain tional organisations such as the United the value of the goods and services pro- Nations. vided by Australia to the poor in Third In 1982-83 this is expected to be about $4 million. World countries.
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Poles gather without their Pope
WARSAW: Since as early as August 6 pilgrims from more than 20 Polish cities began their walks to Czestochowa for the opening last Sunday of the historic 600th anniversary of the arrival there of the famous Black Madonna.
Pope John Paul badly wanted to be at Jasna Gora last Sunday for the ceremony but pressure from the Polish government has f orced the journey to be deferred indefinitely to later in the year of jubilee. Polish authorities estimated that more than 100,000 pilgrims were on the road last week, the Warsaw group being more than 30,000 strong. More than 300,000 packed the TO' .11911 shr inc last Sunday for the begin-
ning of the celebration that will last till August 26 the official anniversary date of the icon's ar rival there. Preparing for this historic event, the Polish bishops said in a letter read in churches on August 8: Since the jubilee is a period of grace and indulgences granted by the Church, we have desired to prolong this year, all the more so because -- by reason of lack of documents regarding the date of t he virgin's ar rival some scholars think that the miraculous
image was brought here in 1383 after the monks settled at Jasna Gota. In April of the present year we called the faithful to pray the osary. We recommended to them to recite a mysteries of the rosary every month, beginning from last May. In this way. taking account also of the repetition of the mystery of the manger in the periods of Advent and Christmas, the gat land of monthly mysteries of the rosary extends beyond the time of jubilee, as far as the anniversary of the victory of Vienna, which victory (the freeing of Vienna from the Turkish seige by King John Sobieski
of Poland in 1683: translator's note) occurred exactly in the mid-point of the 600 years which we are celebrating. So the jubilee period lasts for us until the end of September 1983. No believing Pole ought to miss living the graces of the jubilee of Jasna Cora. Therefore, the greatest son of Poland, lohn Paul II. must not he absent. We have invited him several times. The pope's ai r ival in any country represents a historical event, but the air ival of a Polish pope in Poland multiplies the dimensions of such an event.