April 20, 2019

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Apr202019

LIFE ISSUES ALP abortion policy blithely tramples all our consciences

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYApril 20, 2019

After the Victorian ALP legalised abortion till birth in 2008, late-term abortions increased by 600 per cent at the Melbourne Royal Women’s Hospital The ALP treats the killing of a baby in the womb as of no more significance than getting a hip replacement The Federal ALP’s announcement in March that it will tie public hospital funding to the provision of abortion will endanger the freedom of health practitioners to decline to assist in abortions and ultimately raise the number of pre-born babies being killed annually in Australia. Before the Victorian…

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SOCIETY AND TECHNOLOGY Will Artificial Intelligence do the walking for you?

ECONOMICS, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYApril 20, 2019

For many people, innovation in the ways of participating in and the organising of productive activity is always seen as a threat to the tenuous equilibrium of their economic lives, and indeed it has been. While innovations will always find support from those who can benefit from them, they will usually be resisted by those whose trades and occupations are at risk of being destroyed by them. At present, a suite of innovations – automation, artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, machine learning and the internet of things – is initiating new disruptions to global systems of production. If the introduction of…

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LIFE ISSUES Trump, Shorten and Morrison on abortion

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYApril 20, 2019

As part of their inexorable push to the extreme left, many Democrats in the United States are now actively supporting late-term abortions and even infanticide. Donald Trump was mocked when he warned about this during the 2016 presidential campaign. Since becoming President, Mr Trump has: (a) cut all American aid to foreign organisations that provide abortions; (b) attempted to cut funding to the mass abortion-provider, Planned Parenthood; and (c) appointed two pro-life judges to the Supreme Court. In his State of the Union Address before Congress on February 5, 2019, President Trump condemned the Democrats’ heartless stance and declared his…

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GENDER POLITICS Women abused at Women’s Day March

HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOMS, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYApril 20, 2019

Disabled women, single mothers, survivors of the sex trade and domestic violence were among the party threatened by activists Trans activists and sex-trade lobby protesters seem to have no other purpose than to silence women who speak out Friday March 8 was the Melbourne International Women’s Day (IWD) March. A global protest was planned via social media to march to end sex trafficking and calling for legislation for the Nordic Model for dealing with prostitution. The march attracted around 11,000 people and our small group consisted of 14 feminists. The organising committee had planned a harassment campaign targeting us.…

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