Some of you may have missed hearing the following news item. It is quite heartening.
ABC Online ABC Australia News - 13/02/03 : Terror information packs returned in their thousands http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/2003/02/item20030212211232_1.htm] Thu, Feb 13 2003 1:15 AM AEDT Terror information packs returned in their thousands Thousands of people are returning the Federal Government's new information package on terrorism. The returned packages are flowing in even though the mailout is yet to be completed. Thousands of Australians have begun returning the Prime Minister's message and information package, part of a $20 million terrorism awareness campaign. By Friday all 7.5 million packages will have been received in households across the country. Australia Post offices in Western Australia have already received at least 2,000 packages marked return to sender. They are being stockpiled in post offices around the country. Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley advised people last week to send the packages back. He says many people think the campaign is scaremongering "I would not be surprised if there was hundreds of thousands of these returned," he said. "A post office here in Brisbane, one small post office, has had hundreds of them sent back." A federal senate estimates committee was told yesterday the stockpiled packages would be counted next week. © ABC 2003 | privacy .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
