Definitely not the case for a large percentage of people in need of aids in Australia. While some of the major private health insurance providers offer some rebates on hearing aids, it's only on their absolute top-tear premiums, and rarely cover the full cost of the aids (although it depends on which aids you need). Medicare (public health system) offers nothing.

Australian Hearing will supply aids to people under 26, and I believe pensioners do get some support also. Between 26 and 60, however? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

My partner managed to get new aids recently through some government grants as she needs them for work, but even that's been discontinued now... and the aids she needs are usually more like $5,000 per ear.

IANAL, but I do work in computer (and mobile phone) forensics.

While no one piece of evidence "proves" an entire case (even fingerprints on a murder weapon), it's typically the collective mass of evidence which makes the case.

The great thing about mobile phones is that they are, typically, personal devices. While people commonly share desktop (and to a slightly lesser degree, laptop) computers, it is much less common for people to share a mobile phone.

That said, it's certainly not impossible, and if a suspect raised the "shared phone" defence, I would certainly go looking for any indication that another person had used it - internet history, logged in accounts and many other forensic artifacts could be used to either support or refute such a claim.

In Australia, we have laws regarding both possession and accessing CP. At a state level (in Victoria, at least), we have similar laws to those in Canada. Specifically, (from the Crimes Act (Vic) 1956, we have laws against:

• Producing: "A person who prints or otherwise makes or produces child pornography..." (S68)
• Procuring: "invites a minor to be in any way concerned in the making or production of child pornography"... (S69), and
• Posession: "A person who knowingly possesses child pornography..." (S70)

At a commonwealth (country) level, we also have laws against accessing CP - specifically "Using a carriage service for child pornography material" (Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 S474.19) - which includes accessing, making available, etc.

Sure, there are practical issues with charging people with the accessing offences, but the laws are definitely there...

and I think they're doing quite well with this goal! I'm definitely not a hard core gamer, but I used to enjoy gaming back in the days of Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem. I think my problem with most games these days is there's such a steep learning curve before you can actually enjoy the game - the Wii makes it so much easier, because the controls are much more natural. Since when is cross, a square, a triangle and a circle a good example of natural mapping?

I may not be looking at buying a Wii of my own just yet - but the Wii is definitely further up on my "gadgets I'd like to own" list than any other game system in recent years.