Not waving but drowning at our back door

"Over the past two years, half the popultaed isalnds of the Torres Strait have experienced unprecedented flooding from surging king tides. The islanders cannot prove that climate change is to blame for the tidal flooding or for the shifts in the weather, but their elders are baffled" (Liz Minchen, The Age, 12 August 2006).

Japanese accused of $2bn tuna fraud

"JAPAN has illegally taken $2 billion worth of southern bluefin tuna from waters surrounding Australia in the past 20 years, effectively killing the stock commercially, it is alleged" (Andrew Darby, The Age, 12 August 2006).