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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01/security_firms_compete_to_sell_snoopware_to_repressive_governments/ It's as if we are a bunch of cattle on a no holds barred reality show and the pi**s are trying to snare as many customers as they can. Just look at the offers here: And there is more to be read....

Since moving from uk to au my husband has changed into a violent stranger. He abuses me verbally and threatens me constantly. He has physically hurt me on one occasion and i am now scared to speak or even look at him in case it provokes another outburst. Often his black moods last for days. i have absolutly no family or friends here and am desperate to go back to uk but frightned he may stop me taking our children please please any advise would be great as not sure where to turn

Not sure if anyone has heard this story, I heard a snippet on the radio today that a grandfather has been charged with abuse for making his overweight grandchildren walk 30km with no food or water. Just wondered if anyone heard what happened.

Australian state apologises for child abuse The Aborigines had an extremely hard time but so did thousands of children sent to Australia from all over the world The first 100 children – ‘vagrants’ – were despatched from the London area to Virginia in the Americas in 1618, their passage arranged by the City Fathers, while the last nine children were flown to Australia in 1967 under the auspices of Barnardo’s. It follows that the origins of child migration were linked to Britain’s acquisition of an empire in North America during the early seventeenth century. In the wild, untamed, thinly-populated continent, there was an insatiable demand for men and women to populate and exploit the new territories. The demand was so great, and the perils of the sea journey and the initial pioneering so desperate, that those whom it was convenient for England to send abroad – the convicted felons, the parish poor and abandoned children were considered suitable and many were despatched.