“ Come over and meet the Queen of Greece,” smiled the dean of Barnard. The old psychiatrist shook hands graciously, then cackled to the dean – loud enough for Her Majesty to overhear, “She seems harmless enough.. How long has she thought she is the Queen?”

Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane has rejected a call  by former prime minister Bob Hawke for Australia to become the world's nuclear waste dump.
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Mr Hawke said he had already raised the idea with the Greens.

"One of them, I'm not going to talk about his name, his initial reaction was 'oh, shit', and then when I went through these things and what it could mean, he said this should be talked about," Mr Hawke said.

A leading environmentalist and expert on Chaos Theory says that "Small actions now … are more important than big actions later".

Another expert says that this current generation.. ie you and me, us .... is heading in the direction of being cursed by our children. "The generation held responsible will be cursed by those who come after," he says. 

In the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, 24/9/05:

"Ill winds that whisper the collapse of civilisation" Mankind is at the edge of an abyss, its very survival dependent on urgent action, warns Tim Flannery. Deborah Smith reports. The hurricanes devastating the American coast are the wake-up call the world needs. Do nothing about climate change, and the collapse of civilisation is "inevitable", according to Dr Tim Flannery.