Two prominent medical organisations surprised many of their rank-and-file by not consulting them before giving blanket support for the handing over of control of the abortion drug RU-486 to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, writes Babette Francis, B.Sc (Hons). Now that control of the abortion drug RU-486 has been handed to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, any…
The future-eaters Mark Latham’s analysis of the woes and the likely future of the ALP just won’t go away. Thus, we have now received a restatement of much of what he said from none other than Barry Jones – recent past ALP President. In an interview with Mary Kostakidis at the end of SBS television’s…
Sir, Judging by Peter Westmore’s editorial, “Tide turns on global capitalism”, (February 18, 2006), News Weekly is one of the most anti-capitalist publications in the country. I suppose when Peter jumps out of the swimming pool he thinks this is a good time to do over those nasty free-market advocates again. So he goes…
Sir, Babies make the world go around. This basic knowledge seems to be escaping people from a European background. In 1960, the proportion of people of European descent represented one quarter of the world’s population. With birth control such as contraception, sterilisation and rampant abortion, it is expected that by 2050 that global share will…