Pubdate: Thu, 6 May 1999 Source: Canberra Times (Australia) Contact: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/ Author: Graeme Wallace WORSE THINGS WORTHY OF HOWARD'S OUTRAGE I HAVE heard that our Prime Minister is much aggrieved by the opening of a heroin "shooting gallery" in a Sydney church. Other than offending his specifically inflexible stance on that spectacular sinking ship (the war on drugs), it is abhorrent to his mind as an illegal act. Yes, indeed it is illegal, but perhaps it is the case that sometimes in life we may find that it is the laws themselves which are wrong. A recent report rolled out the statistic that some half-a-million Australian children live in poverty or otherwise dire circumstances. Perhaps this is something to which Mr Howard should direct his outrage or indignation and rather than "putting the boot in" every time some community or welfare organisation does something to alleviate the already considerable difficulty faced by drug dependants in merely staying alive. GRAEME WALLACE Hawker - --- MAP posted-by: Patrick Henry