ABC Newcastle, 18 January, 2016 1:10PM AEDT Indigenous language, gay rights, and social media – at 26 Gamilaroi man Matty Morgan is packing a lot into life. He is a young Aboriginal man who’s not afraid to take the lead. Hosted by Jill Emberson, 1233 ABC Newcastle Mornings presenter, Meet the Mob is a weekly profile of Aboriginal people in the Hunter region of New South Wales. Read...
Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 2015 – 1:53PM A retired nurse and the mother of two young girls have each been found guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation in Australia’s first prosecution of an FGM case. A sheikh, Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact. All three were members of the Dawoodi Bohra Shia Muslim community Read more from...
news.com.au, November 8, 2015 3:35pm FLEUR* is worried. Worried she will be blackmailed into sex, worried she will be forced underground, most of all, worried the police will turn from her protector to her persecutor. Her worries have risen due to a recent NSW inquiry into the regulation of brothels which is due to hand down its recommendations next week. Currently the state is one of the few...
The Guardian, Monday 26 October 2015 09.39 AEDT Improved technology has made testing for foetal abnormalities easier and more accurate, but inconsistent state legislation means women do not have equal access to abortion should they choose to terminate their pregnancy as a result, an editorial published in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday says. With the exception of Victoria, doctors...
Barriers to HIV testing and characteristics associated with never testing among gay and bisexual men attending sexual health clinics in Sydney Conway DP et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2015, 18:20221 Abstract Introduction: HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men have increased over the past decade in Australia. HIV point-of-care testing (POCT) was introduced in Australia in 2011...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 6, 2015 – 9:19AM
Scripture books promoting “dangerous” messages about sex and male power are being used in NSW public schools, leading to calls for a crack down on special religious education.
Parent-run lobby group Fairness in Religions in Schools (FIRIS) has raised concerns.
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