Monday, December 29, 2003

ALMOST 80 per cent of Victorians believe the Bracks government has not done enough for them in the past 12 months, a survey published in today's Herald Sun newspaper has revealed.
Nine in 10 Victorians said they did not trust the accuracy of speed cameras and more than eight in 10 believed speed cameras were being used to raise revenue.
The survey also found 80 per cent of respondents said public transport across Melbourne was not up to scratch.

A SPECIAL Morgan poll has found only 6 per cent of Australians and New Zealanders expect the new year to be more peaceful than this year.

But this year, with a Dec. 30 deadline looming and 55,000 green cards at stake, the lottery has attracted fewer than half the usual number of applications, falling to 5 million from as many as 13 million.

'What a terrible day this has been,' he is quoted as telling Libero in the Christmas Eve interview. 'The papers don't come out tomorrow, right? Then I can tell you that the real question is not the television decree [which preserved the right of one of Berlusconi's channels to continue terrestrial broadcasting]... but precise and verified information about an attack on Rome on Christmas Day. A hijacked plane on the Vatican - an attack from the sky, you understand?
'The threat of terrorism is very high at the moment. I spent Christmas Eve in Rome dealing with the situation. Now I feel more tranquil.'

An overwhelming majority of Americans consider themselves to be religious. Yet according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, people who attend church more than once a week vote Republican by 63 percent to 37 percent; people who seldom or never attend vote Democratic by 62 percent to 38 percent.

Or as Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins foreign affairs specialist, remarked after visiting Poland: "Poland is the most pro-American country in the world — including the United States."

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