The Price of Failure

The amendments made by the Government to overcome some of the anomalies in the changed fee system, instituted last year are welcome but inadequate. The main attack on existing conditions was the shortening of the terms of bursaries. The price of failure is too high, the rewards of success too low.

The refusal of the Hong Kong authorities to accept illegal immigrants from China has been criticised. The particularly vociferous objections of the Australians, whose chief claim to fame is their White Australia Policy, must have rankled.

In his budget Mr Lake has failed to face up to the fundamental problem affecting the country today. We can no longer afford to subsidise the incomes of the farmer at the present unrealistically high level.

Rimbaud writes of the dark beauty of death and destruction. Today death and destruction have assumed a brighter more beautiful form.