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...flurry of critics have decried the plan as a rushed and heavy-handed stunt that will crush Aboriginal autonomy. Aboriginal academic Boni Robertson has been waiting for action on child abuse since she authored a major report in 1999 detailing crimes against Aboriginal women and children in Queensland. But she fears that applying punitive welfare measures to everyone will imply all Aborigines are "irresponsible monsters, when there are many parents who are doing the right thing." She warns too that, without extensive rehabilitation services, banning alcohol will only shift the problem elsewhere. As in the N.T., many communities...
...eight years in Parliament had stretched to "nearly a decade." A diplomat from 1981 to 1988, Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told one interviewer. Rudd left the foreign service to work in Queensland politics as a Labor adviser. He was that state's top bureaucrat when Wayne Goss was Premier. After he failed in his attempt to enter federal politics at the 1996 election, he worked as a China consultant for management firm KPMG-which in Rudd's telling gives him credentials "running...
...more frequent droughts, overpopulation and intensified irrigation are pressing water engineers to devise new approaches. And some of them will take some getting used to. Despite a five-year drought widely considered the worst in Australia's recorded history, the residents of Toowoomba in Queensland last year resoundingly rejected an offer from the national government to fund a program to recycle purified sewage water back into the system. Scientific evidence and taste tests couldn't prevail against the yuck factor...
Since then Queensland Premier Peter Beattie declared such recycling mandatory. It's already standard practice in Namibia and Singapore and in cities like London, which draw much of their water from rivers where treated sewage has been dumped upstream. Queasiness is a luxury no one can either afford or justify, since purification technology can handle stuff the coddled minds of suburbia cannot. "Even wastewater is at least 99% water," says Bruce Durham, Veolia's alternative-resources manager. "What matters isn't its history but its quality...
PETER BEATTIE, Premier of Queensland, Australia, who announced that owing to falling water levels--a result of the country's worst drought on record--the state will introduce drinking water containing recycled sewage water, starting next year...