Meanwhile, Down Under
Feb. 1st, 2008 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyOur new PM has ordered up a White Paper on the 100,000 homeless Australians, emphasising prevention. Insufficient crisis accomodation an urgent problem: more than half of those who seek it are turned away, including families with children; the guvmint has pledged $150m for additional accomodation.
Yay for democracy: the Police Commissioner proposed media blackouts during terrorism trials and was swiftly rebuked by all and sundry, including the PM. The President of the Law Council of Australia said: "The price the police must pay for assuming greater powers is an increased level of public scrutiny." The SMH drily noted: "Mr Keelty's call to ban media comes after the well-publicised bungling of the Mohamed Haneef case."
Folks in a nearby Sydney suburb have discovered they're living next to an unmarked radioactive waste dump. (Hilariously, the contaminated land is owned by the Department of Health.)
Oh, and Australian strawberries are contaminated with pesticides and fungicides. (I feel less foolish for spending the extra $ on organic now.)
Yay for democracy: the Police Commissioner proposed media blackouts during terrorism trials and was swiftly rebuked by all and sundry, including the PM. The President of the Law Council of Australia said: "The price the police must pay for assuming greater powers is an increased level of public scrutiny." The SMH drily noted: "Mr Keelty's call to ban media comes after the well-publicised bungling of the Mohamed Haneef case."
Folks in a nearby Sydney suburb have discovered they're living next to an unmarked radioactive waste dump. (Hilariously, the contaminated land is owned by the Department of Health.)
Oh, and Australian strawberries are contaminated with pesticides and fungicides. (I feel less foolish for spending the extra $ on organic now.)
