Labor leaders making Australia secure for insecurity

It's incredibly sad to see that the Australian Labor Opposition and the Labor premiers of the majority of Australian states have approved the right-wing Howard Government's draconian "security" legislation.

On the whiff of suspicion about anything at all (read: on some dickhead politician's whim), now any of us can be held for 14 days without trial. And the things in the legislation that turn the stomach just begin there. See you in jail.

As Australian Council for Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman said on ABC radio: "They seem to be acting like school boys playing 'Look at me, look at me, aren't I good?'"

Old Silver sticks head up own arse
Meanwhile in the news, if proof were needed that Labor is a shadow of its former self, former Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke wants Australia to be the dumping ground for the world's nuclear waste. Is it any wonder people are leaving the Labor Party in droves for the Greens?

"The Silver Bodgie" Hawke reckons Australia's geological conditions are so stable that we can risk it, and grab lots of brown paper bags of dollars to use on environmental problems. Problems like nuclear radiation sickness for thousands of years?

If you want to see how stable things are and how Hawke's brain is turning to putty, see October 14, 1968 in the Book of Days. A photo of a 6.9 Richter earthquake in Hawkie's own state of Western Australia ... the one that famously devastated the district of Meckering.

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