Backyard blitz

Victoria's notoriously soft and politically-correct Chief Commissioner of Police Christine Nixon gave a press conference yesterday calling on citizens to be on the lookout for backyard amphetamine factories in their neighbourhood. Apparently one of her main concerns is that such factories are - wait for it - a fire hazard. Gee, I never thought of that. They probably have all sorts of unsafe work practices too, to say nothing of discriminatory hiring policies, poor cultural sensitivity training for their employees, and, for all I know, a cavalier disregard for family-friendly workplace guidelines.