So you do want to help the disadvantaged, ok that's progress, but why only the Australian ones?
Charity begins at home.
A large number of the other Countries' woes are related to self-inflicted wounds such as Civil war, famine (related to their over-population), etc.
Many of them are massively over-populated, and the folks are starving. STOP HAVING KIDS. Their Governments need to set up programs for this and to improve possibilities for farming, etc.
It is not our responsibility to save them.
Natural disasters are not self-inflicted of course, but they always will occur, and these Countries need to do some self-planning for many of them - landslides, floods, tsunamis, bushfires and so on - don't live in these areas, and don't over-populate.
As for your "working poor" I think we've established that these people are not necessarily disadvantaged. I get that you don't like whinging dole bludgers. Let's leave them out of the discussion.
I have not mentioned dole bludgers once in this debate...they are a whole other topic - don't get me started on that lot.
I am talking about those who are the
working poor...I think I have italicized the word about 3 times now to highlight the subject...
The working poor are those who are earning money. On a wage, renting or buying, driving a car, etc...the average Joe who has too much week at the end of the money - and whinges about it.
But; they are that way due to every single life decision they have made to date; the things they spend money on, or don't spend money on, their education levels (you don't have to be a Uni-qual student, but you need to have at least a competent Year 10 level as a bit of a guide).
Why do I say this?
Not because you need Year 10 to succeed, but the very fact that folks are failing Year 10 (or buggering off from school before Year 10) is an illustration of their level of commitment to life in general - "hard yards", learning, relationships, manners, saving money and so forth - they are primarily folks who take the easy option in almost every aspect in their lives.
And they arrive at a position as a younger adult where they are battlers who live hand to mouth and cry all day long about it, blame the Boss, blame the Gubbmint, blame everyone else but themselves, pump out a swag of kids they can't possibly ever hope to afford, and so on.
Not that I don't want to help these folks - I would LOVE to get hold of every single kid in school and teach them the basic things about money and work and work ethic, attitude towards life... Bill Gates made a great speech about these things to a group of school kids.
If I could do that; in the next generation we would have no (or little) working poor.
We would have a population of kids coming up through school saving 20% and more of their pocket money towards investing; not their first car, or horse, or holiday etc. That comes out of the rest that's left.
They pay themselves first, they pay themselves first when they get a part-time job after school, when they start work. By 30 years of age they are set up and not the working poor - probably the financially free (or close to it)
But I'll bet you that 95% or more of the working poor - never did the above.
Hell; I was one, but made a better choice/s....started very late.
If an idiot like me can do it, then everyone else can and should be able to get ahead of the working poor..