I gotta snopes this one. The Aussies have said "NO MORE!" .... best thing you can do is send $$$; the article suggests that if you just gotta knit, knit something here (charging properly for your time will give you a nice hefty ROI on your yarn stash) and send the profits to Oz. Besides, you checked out shipping costs to the far side of the world lately? You could easily double the value of your donation by skipping the shipping alone!

That and sending semolians will enable them to get stuff you *can't* easily ship as an individual: Animal food. That and pay the workers all the overtime they've earned, and keep *them* fed, etc...