In early September, most abortions performed in Queensland health facilities came to a halt. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists had passed on a legal opinion to their members that said doctors were still at risk of prosecution while abortion remained in the criminal code.
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Five Alice Springs men have been charged for the July 25 bashing of Aboriginal man Kwementyaye Ryder. The killing is part of a spate of racist violence that has plagued Alice Springs over recent months.
In May last year, federal Treasurer Wayne Swan announced the formation of the Australia鈥檚 Future Tax System Review, to be run by Treasury secretary Ken Henry. When the Henry review reports to government in December, its recommendations are likely to leave the wealthy smiling and the rest of us grinding our teeth.
Lewis Carroll once wrote about a fictitious map that was so topographically accurate, it was as large as the country it was mapping.
More than 200 people rallied on October 11, supporting former employees of liquidating company Solar Systems and calling on the federal and state governments to rescue the company鈥檚 solar power plant project in Mildura. Solar Systems went into administration after failing to find enough investors to continue the project.
NEWCASTLE 鈥 Climate change campaigners have ridiculed the Australian Coal Association鈥檚 鈥渃ut emissions, not jobs鈥 ad campaign, announcing their own campaign 鈥渢o cut emissions, create 箩辞产蝉鈥.
An open letter to the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and Labor MP Kelvin Thomson
The Greens released a set of 22 amendments to the Rudd Labor government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on October 12.
The following demands have been supported by a majority of the former Solar Systems employees:
SYDNEY鈥 In the early hours of October 9, the Latin American Community Centre (Casa Latina), in the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, burned to the ground. All contents were destroyed. NSW police are investigating the fire but are yet to determine a cause.
The NSW town of Helensburgh, an hour south of Sydney, is now gripped by a discussion about coal and green jobs after the NSW Climate Camp held over October 9-11.
South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has come under fire from Indigenous leaders over his October 11 statement that a 鈥渉ard core group of repeat offenders鈥 were 鈥減ure evil鈥 and could not be rehabilitated.
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