I should probably get hold of a copy of this book.
I hadn't really thought about the drinking water thing, but yeah, it is very available. I remember some drama in the 1990s when nightclubs tried to get people to pay for water from the bar, and attempted to enforce it by blocking the bathroom taps in some way (or making them warm water only? I forget.) Anyway, uproar ensued.
The wallaby story is indeed disturbing :-/ Though, yes, entirely understandable.
In passing, someone the other night asked me what effect the emancipist movement in the UK around 1800 had on Australian treatment of Aboriginal people. I kind of went O_o in confusion for a moment, because the question was based on US assumptions that aren't true in Australia, but when I started thinking about it it got really interesting. I think there's a DW post in there somewhere.
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I hadn't really thought about the drinking water thing, but yeah, it is very available. I remember some drama in the 1990s when nightclubs tried to get people to pay for water from the bar, and attempted to enforce it by blocking the bathroom taps in some way (or making them warm water only? I forget.) Anyway, uproar ensued.
The wallaby story is indeed disturbing :-/ Though, yes, entirely understandable.
In passing, someone the other night asked me what effect the emancipist movement in the UK around 1800 had on Australian treatment of Aboriginal people. I kind of went O_o in confusion for a moment, because the question was based on US assumptions that aren't true in Australia, but when I started thinking about it it got really interesting. I think there's a DW post in there somewhere.