Peter Singer

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Australian Finance Podcast · Using your money to make an impact | Rask Christmas Giving Appeal · 18 Nov 2021 podcast

An alternative that I hope some donors will consider is to donate to the 1090 Fund.

Of that, then 90% of what you donate will go to those charities, but 10% will go to keep the Life You Can Save going.

It does cost something to keep any organisation going,

And we think 10% is a reasonable ask so that we can continue to spread the message, continue to grow and raise more money for the effective charities.

Because we have shown, we're also interested in numbers ourselves.

We've shown that for every dollar we spend on our own administration, $17 are generated for the effective charities.

So we think what we're spending on ourselves is good value for everybody too.

Thanks very much, Owen and Kate, it's been great to have the opportunity to talk to you and to talk to your listeners.

And of course, I'm hoping for a

positive response from many of them.

Australian Finance Podcast · Making effective donations to charity with Peter Singer · 8 Nov 2020 podcast

Thank you very much, Owen, for that generous introduction, and I'm happy to be with you and with Kate.

studied to do law and the arts was kind of a little side issue to make the law degree a little bit more interesting, but I ended up then getting a scholarship to go to Oxford and study philosophy there.

And I was always interested in the areas of philosophy that made a difference to your life.

So clearly that was gonna be ethics and perhaps political philosophy.

And even when I was, well, when I was just a student or still at Oxford,

I started thinking about the obligations of people who, like myself, were living a comfortable material life in an affluent country as in regard to people who were in extreme poverty and extreme need.

And it was the crisis in what's now Bangladesh that arose in 1971 that made me write my first piece about this because there were nine million refugees from what was then East Pakistan who flooded into

into India and India needed help to feed them.

And so I was asking myself, you know, well, what ought I to be doing?

Here are 9 million people who, you know, may not get fed enough, may not have sanitation, and what are my obligations to help them?

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