Have no fear Oh most Doubting of Thomas's, it be 100% true.

The mayor of where @Triphid lives is almost as demented as that preacher: [abc.net.au] . There must be something in the local water that causes madness in the locals who are susceptible to it.

@anglophone so true. It's from all the lead that they dug out of there. They sent that to Pt Pirie to be smelted, another town full of weirdos

@anglophone Nope, we learned early on in the piece that eating plenty of apples and drinking apple juice helps rid the body of Lead
Used to be that the ONLY Dip-shit, Crazies and Nut-jobs we ever got here were those that 'blew in' from the rest of Australia, that's why we called them blow-ins, because they blew in on one dust storm and blew back out again on another when they discovered that we were laughing at them.
Hey and FYI, Port Pirie ALWAYS had a worse Blood Lead Level problem that we did here BECAUSE of how they Stock-pile the Ore Concentrates before Smelting them and what the did with slag from the Smelters afterwards as well.

@anglophone Mayor Diarrhoea Turdley (Turley) has realised that she faces an Election in the near future and so, just as she was taught by her Mentor, aka, Wincen, Winnie the Poo, Cuy, she is attempting to foster the indigenous vote since she knows her popularity with everyone else around town is at an all time low, lower than ZERO in fact.

@Triphid I once worked in a zinc smelter. Blood lead levels where just part of the health and safety at work regime.

@Triphid Hmm. Perhaps the notion of being a servant of all the people is anathema to her.

@anglophone Imo, USING her BRAIN and serving those who elected her and the citizens of Broken Hill are a HUGE anathema to her.

@Triphid Do you mean to tell me that she has a brain?

@anglophone Wel, I ASUME that she was born with one, what happened after that, I have NO idea.

I think, like they've been doing with the homeless around Sydney they've been moving them out here as well.
The Councils of the Greater Sydney Region were paying the Homeless and Rough Sleepers $100 in cash, a FREE train and bus ticket, a voucher for meals at ALL rest stops for the bus and for the snack carriage on the train PLUS giving them clean, fresh second hand clothing, etc, IF they moved out of Sydney and into the remote areas.
Their PLAN, to Clean up the City streets.

@Triphid That would kind of explain it then.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Plus, as a very trusted friend who works in the City Council Offices told me, the Sydney Councils ALSO pay OUR Council a FEE to take them.
How much he doesn't know, but it would be something substantial I'd guess.

@Triphid Smacks of bribery, but it is what it is.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Exactly.