Unbelievable.
The Australian government has received specific information about a terrorist threat on its soil. Incidentally, this story is breaking right around the time John Howard is trying to push contentious anti-terror laws through. The Opposition and almost all the State Premiers are lining up behind Howard, also backing the anti-terror laws.

This really is too much of a coincidence. Also, John Howard has lied and misrepresented the facts, numerous times, in order to push through contentious legislation. (The Tampa and the Children Overboard incident immediately springs to mind.) Why is anything different this time? Yet, people are believing him, once again.

I haven't even mentioned that, right about now, Howard is *also* trying to ram through Industrial Relations reforms through Parliament. I don't know much about the IR reforms, apart from that many people agree they're a terrible idea. But, of course, with the anti-terror laws as a smokescreen, the attention has shifted away from the IR reforms.

This would be comical if it wasn't so serious. If all this passes, Howard will be taking us back 30 years or so, we'll be a police state, and the whole country will go to the dogs.

I've joked about emigrating to New Zealand before, but I'm starting to think I really should.