Australian moralist-conservative PM John Howard has
purged his drug war council of
advocates of law reform (i.e., desertion in the War On Drugs), and bolstered
it with drug-war hard-liners. The council is already run by a high-ranking
member of the conservative, zero-tolerance Salvation Army, whose fortunes have
been bolstered by Howard's support, its operations staffed by
work-for-the-dole conscripts (or so various anarchist types allege, anyway).