Hey, don't you tell me they weren't scaremongering before these arrests were made. The Coalition basically came out for a week beforehand and said "we're expecting a terrorist attack pretty soon, so yeah, be careful!"
They caught guys taking video footage of Spencer St station a couple weeks before London. ASIO knew about this shit weeks ago, it was convenient for them to pull the trigger on it now.
I really don't know how to feel about the IR reforms. On one side of my family, my dad will be without a union and without bargaining power, on the other, my mother will be able to negotiate a decent contract. Being a labor man in a labor state, I don't want the reforms to go through, but hey, the stupid fuckers in the north of Tas and (as usual) in the richer parts of the country gave those assholes majorities in both houses, so we'll have to fix this shit in 2007.