Australasians continue to let themselves down badly with their trans-Tasman ethos of "she'll be right." When a flurry of incidents occur underground across the two nationsshocking events that are inconceivable to the minds and hearts of Christianspeople 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.