Howard still can't acknowledge global warming.

[Matilda]

Amazing, isn't it? Five years of drought, more handouts to the
farmers, and still Howard can't acknowledge that this isn't an
aberration, El Nino, or anything else that's just temporary, but
all part of changing weather patterns.

Unfortunately, in his usual way, Beazley is giving Labor's
support to more handouts for the bush - he could really hit Howard
with this one, because it's not going to go away and Labor could
hammer it hard for the rest of Howard's term, but no, he's huffing
and puffing in his usual "I'm with you, John" fashion.

What is it going to take to wake up this country?

[rawtribe]

1. Bad movie, but this is what it will take.

http://www.foxhome.com/dayaftertomorrow/

[foreigncorrespondent]

2. Didn't work!

Lots of people have seen it, but they still don't listen. And considering the changing weather patterns both here in Oz and around the world due to global warming, I really don't know what the hell is wrong with these people.

[rawtribe]

3. I was thinking

it would take the actual events portrayed in the film. It seems greed is more powerful than reason.

[T_i_B]

4. Australia running dry in worst drought for century

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/02/waus02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/02/ixportal.html

Australia, the world's driest inhabited land mass, is suffering one of its worst droughts in a century, spurring fears that towns and cities may run out of water.

A vast swathe of the country, from South Australia to Queensland, is already bone dry after four consecutive years of low rainfall.

Now Goulburn, surrounded by prime sheep country 100 miles south-west of Sydney, risks earning the dubious distinction of becoming the first Australian community to lose its water altogether.

Its main supply, the Pejar Dam, is little more than a giant saucer of cracked clay, its water level 35ft lower than it should be. "It's going to be empty by the end of the month," said Matt O'Rourke, the council's water services manager.

[foreigncorrespondent]

5. And here I am...

...with a stupid ass neighbour who gets out and waters his garden in the bloody rain.

If anyone knows of the phone number to call to report water wallies, I would greatly appreciate it.