The former big Australian, BHP, has finally admitted what environmentalists have been saying for years, that the company's OK-Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea is devastating the environment. The Federal Government has decided to let sleeping pigs lie - there'll be no royal commission into the business affairs of former Prime Minister Paul Keating. The Attorney-General Daryl Williams told Parliament today that it was not in the public interest to investigate Mr Keating. While there's been a mixed response in lusher areas, the virus has ripped through rabbit populations in the dry areas of our continent. Not bad news for a virus that first made headlines after it accidentally escaped quarantine from an island off South Australia.
Some issues never die - they just lie dormant for a while.
Back in the 20s the great American attorney Clarence Darrow won a huge victory for the theory of evolution in what was called the Scope's Trial, or the Monkey Trial. Today in Kansas, the State Board of Education has just ruled that evolution be removed from the school curriculum. It's a position that surprises the creation movement here in Australia.