$3.59 to "flush out ice crooks"

Lovely typo in The Australian today:

Environment Minister Greg Hunt will dish out about $900,000 in protected species grants overwhelmingly to Liberal-held marginal seats including Leichhardt and Forde in Queensland, La Trobe and Murray in Victoria, Lyons in Tasmania, Paterson in NSW, and O’Connor and Durack in Western Australia.

One seat held by an independent, Bob Katter’s Kennedy, was also included.

Separately, in a move to “flush out” ice crooks, a re-elected government would give $3.59 to the Australian Crime Commission to test the nation’s wastewater for drugs.

“This type of detection can ultimately lead police to dealers and their clandestine labs,” Justice Minister Michael Keenan said, adding the analysis could also lead investigators to overseas syndicates that supply certain ingredients.

“Crooks are more sophisticated than ever before and we need to be smarter, more agile, more innovative and more targeted in our efforts to detect, disrupt and undermine the misery they peddle.”


Glad that the Crime Commission is only being promised $3.59 to "flush out ice crooks" in some hair-brained scheme.
As the Good Lady Wife said: "Here's a fiver, keep the change".

Thought the war on drugs was lost and over, done and dusted?

{Originally published 05-06-16)