WORSE THINGS WORTHY OF HOWARD'S OUTRAGE

I HAVE heard that our Prime Minister is much aggrieved by the opening
of a heroin "shooting gallery" in a Sydney church.

Other than offending his specifically inflexible stance on that
spectacular sinking ship (the war on drugs), it is abhorrent to his
mind as an illegal act.

Yes, indeed it is illegal, but perhaps it is the case that sometimes
in life we may find that it is the laws themselves which are wrong.

A recent report rolled out the statistic that some half-a-million
Australian children live in poverty or otherwise dire
circumstances.

Perhaps this is something to which Mr Howard should direct his outrage
or indignation and rather than "putting the boot in" every time some
community or welfare organisation does something to alleviate the
already considerable difficulty faced by drug dependants in merely
staying alive.

GRAEME WALLACE
Hawker