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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/pregnant-jehovahs-witness-decision-to-refuse-treatment-harrowing-for-hospital-staff-after-mother-and-baby-die-20150406-1mf570.html Thoughts? Does the state have a legitimate interest in overriding the mother's decision in order to potentially save the unborn child...

GRUESOME details have emerged of the torture program set up by the CIA under former US president George W. Bush and the brutality goes beyond what anyone expected. In a shocking report released by the US Senate investigators, it describes practices such as “rectal hydration” and “rectal...

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/target-australia-pulls-grand-theft-auto-v-from-shelves-after-customer-feedback-on-violence-20141203-11znsz.html

The Carbon tax is no more. Repeal bills just passed the Senate 39-32.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/iraq-crisis-isil-militants-declare-caliphate-20140630-zsqcg.html

Thoughts? Racist or political correctness gone mad? Aldi cops backlash after advertising 'inflammatory' Australia Day shirts | News.com.au Aldi 1788 T-shirt approved

The Labor Government has been kicked from office after only 5 years 10 months in power. A government that came to power with so much promise has undoubtedly squandered it. Where and why do you think it went wrong? They in the end essentially kicked themselves from office. It is an...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/university-of-nsw-cuts-off-low-score-students/story-fn59niix-1226681671788 THE University of NSW has broken ranks from the government's expansion agenda by becoming the first institution to require a minimum entrance score to enrol in any of...

Thread for the 2013 Ashes series. 98 from Agar. What a performance!

So where did it all go wrong for the Gillard government? She never really was able to connect with the electorate. Before taking the leadership Gillard was universally viewed as having so much potential, so why did it end like this? Communications? Bad advice? Gender? Manner of coming to...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331941/Chinese-baby-rescued-ALIVE-toilet-pipe-flushed-away-parents.html

http://www.smh.com.au/national/year-7-rethink-for-sydney-boys-20130523-2k42j.html One of Sydney's top selective high schools could relax entry requirements to make it easier for high-achieving local students to enrol, in a significant break from existing policy.

Ford will no longer manufacture cars in Australia. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/ford-set-to-end-car-making-in-australia/story-e6frg6nf-1226648917020 Over the past decade taxpayers have subsidised Ford and Holden to the tune of $12 billion. This was meant to 'protect jobs'...

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/labor-to-lock-in-levy-rise-20130430-2ir9d.html Labor's $14 billion national disability insurance scheme will be funded in part by a special Medicare-style levy set at 0.5 per cent of income, after Julia Gillard reversed her opposition to the funding...

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/australia-is-most-comfortably-racist-says-daily-show-presenter-20130416-2hxg5.html The Daily Show's John Oliver thinks so. Thoughts?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/university-sector-to-be-hit-in-gonski-reforms-20130413-2hry2.html http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/gillard-government-to-announce-tough-budget-cuts-to-fund-multi-billion-dollar-bill-for-schools/story-e6freuy9-1226619685401

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President Obama has announced a package of laws and executive orders to combat guns in America. Will it work? http://www.smh.com.au/world/it-is-how-we-will-be-judged-obama-announces-widest-gun-control-measures-in-18-years-20130117-2cufc.html...

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/no-merriness-here-mosque-puts-fatwa-on-christmas-20121222-2bsk2.html

Anybody getting rewards from parents etc for getting good marks?