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Drug testing kit for kids 'ruins trust'

A NEW home-testing kit that detects drug use through hair samples has been branded an invasion of privacy by civil liberties and health groups.

The Speech So Good That Labor Mps Used It Twice

DIARY is constantly inspired by the originality of thought when Meddlers of Parliament rise to their feet to waffle on about a matter of major importance. Take Labor's MP for Preston, Robin Scott (below top), in the lower house on October 7, tackling a scam involving the sale of electrolyser kits that supposedly increase fuel efficiency: "Of course you can burn hydrogen because it is combustible, and you can burn it in an internal combustion engine." A day later, Labor's upper house MP for ...

Lego For Grown-ups

Build-your-own car kits can be wildly frustrating and deeply satisfying.

City's $40,000 Escape Kit Branded A Waste

THE City of Sydney has spent $40,832 buying 1200 Go Bags - emergency escape kits packed with radios, torches, dust masks and other survival paraphernalia - for staff and councillors.

Critics Want Go Bag Gone

THE City of Sydney has spent $40,832 buying 1200 Go Bags - emergency escape kits packed with radios, torches, dust masks and other survival paraphernalia - for staff and councillors.

$50 For A Cuppa . . . And A Recipe To Die

THE meeting began like any other senior citizens' gathering on a sunny weekday afternoon. There was tea and coffee being poured under portraits of the Queen, but this time it was being served with images of lethal drug kits and instructions on suffocation bags.

Refugee Kits Scorned

NSW parents, teachers and the State Government yesterday lashed out at the Federal Government over school kits designed to educate kids about Australia's treatment of refugees.

School Kits On Refugees Branded Propaganda

A Federal Government kit designed to educate school children on Australia's refugee policies has met with an angry response from the State Government, teachers and parents.

Refugees On The Syllabus

The Federal Government has spent $100,000 defending its reputation on refugees to school children. A spokesman for the Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone, said the money had been spent on 28,000 information kits 22,000 of which had been sent to schools as a part of its ``Australia says YES to r

Dope Warning Kits In Schools

EDUCATION kits highlighting the dangers of cannabis use had been supplied to NSW high schools, the State Government said yesterday

Kits To Hold Pupils Back From Cannabis

EDUCATION kits highlighting the dangers of cannabis use had been supplied to NSW high schools, the State Government said yesterday.