Labor senator Sam Dastyari has tweeted about pets and foreign aid.
Senator Dastyari's comparison suffers from faulty reasoning. For a start, the foreign aid budgets of governments worldwide are typically small when compared to aggregate private spending, whether it be on pets or any other economic component. Australians spent $14 billion a year on alcohol in 2012, for example. This comparison is arguably more apposite for showing that Australia's foreign aid budget is "small", rather than a comparison with private spending on pets.
Fact check: Does Australians' spending on pets show how little the nation spends on foreign aid?
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