The report, to be released this afternoon, finds that ratings and journalists' own personal opinions are more likely to cause bias than the views of media owners, mini or otherwise. Unions have called for the consumer boycott even as the Victorian Treasurer, John Brumby, warns that Arnotts would struggle to maintain market share in his state. The tragic discovery of two bodies and a life raft on a Bass Strait Island yesterday is causing anger over how federal and state bodies conduct searches. Relatives of the dead fishermen say more money and time should have been spent on the initial search and the head of a fishing advisory council says search and rescue operations in commonwealth waters are restricted by limited resources. The decision by President Bush to reject proposals to cut his country's greenhouse gas emissions may well have ended any chance of success for the Kyoto protocol on global warming.
Environmentalists contend that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, causing sea levels to rise.
If that's correct, the people of the low-lying Pacific islands will be the first to suffer the consequences. At the very eastern end of Papua New Guinea, the people of one remote island group are already suffering. Their food crops are threatened by rising seas, and there's genuine fear their islands are sinking. Music is universally known for its healing qualities. But for many people conisidered to be intellectually disabled the world of sounds, rhythm and song has remained something for so-called 'normal' people to enjoy.