Three senior medical staff at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital have been suspended while the hospital management investigates their involvement in the induced delivery and death of a 32 week old foetus. During a press conference, Professor Glenn Bowes, the hospital’s Medical Director, said that the case documentation was unclear on several points and had been…
Not much has been going right for Prime Minister John Howard on the political front lately, but he may be able to pull off something of a political coup in the vital policy area of defence. On the eve of the launch of the GST, the Howard Government announced that Australia would have to boost…
Colin Teese, a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, looks at Canberra’s capitulation on the Howe Leather case in which Australia displayed its weakness before the world. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) must have been relieved when it was informed of the terms of the settlement reached between the United States and Australia on the matter of Australia’s leather exports to the USA. For the first time the WTO’s dispute settlement procedures seem actually to have been implemented without the aggrieved party rejecting the ruling and suffering punitive trade sanctions. But that is hardly good news. For Australia…
In June over 200 people gathered in Sydney’s Parliament House for Drug Summit 2000. Organised by Major Brian Watters of the Salvation Army, Jill Pearman of Drug Watch, and Rev Fred Nile MLC, the three-day summit brought together experts in the area of drug policy to discuss a way ahead on the problems of drug…