It is clearly hard to get out of that election mode when posturing about tough on law and order is seen by politicians as a pre-requisite for success.
Drink driving
A tale of drinking, driving and bloody idiots
Some nice confected tabloid outrage at the increasingly negative Herald Sun today, with a cover story of a drink driving charge from seven years ago. Compare that to a rather similar drink driving story about the Hun’s own editor.
Should the legal drinking age be raised to reduce road crash deaths?
There are more effective ways for Australia to reduce road crash deaths due to alcohol, apart from raising the legal drinking age, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
Drink, drive: bloody member of parliament
Here’s a list of our lead-foot and sozzled lawmakers who lost points, licences and credibility as menaces on our roads, writes Chris Johnson.
