NEGATIVE RETURN Australasians continue to let themselves down badly with their trans-Tasman ethos of "she'll be right." When a flurry of incidents occurs underground across the two nations - shocking events that are inconceivable to the minds and hearts of Christians - people are slow to make connections. Way, way too slow . . . In a blend of frighteningly feasible political possibilities, we face in Negative Return the fact that as judiciousness is subsumed by raw emotion, nothing seems impossible.