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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Sabotage at the SMH
It appears the Sydney Morning Herald website has been the focus of some online sabotage, with various parts of the site modified during the week. Crikey’s got the screen shots.
Abortion stand-off continues — and Queenslanders pay
It’s time for Queensland’s antiquated abortion laws to change. Anna Bligh must instigate reforms that will benefit women and give legal certainty to doctors, writes Caroline de Costa.
Abortion: speaking up for the muzzled doctors
With an important case on medical abortion in the Cairns Magistrates’ Court, there is an urgent need for reform of Queensland’s archaic and repressive abortion laws, writes Dr Caroline de Costa.
MEANWHILE: Queensland passes abortion law reforms
Exercise will do Queensland kids a fat lot of good
The thinking behind a new QLD education policy is obviously that if our kids can’t be smart at least they’ll be thin, writes David Gillespie.
Tips and rumours
Readers may be interested to see that the Monash Alumini web page for Kevin Andrews has now been altered to refer to his having “contributed” rather than “coauthored” certain publications. To date there has been no change in the resume at the sites Kevin Andrews himself controls. The Coles board are becoming embarrassed, defensive and […]
Beattie goes: the Queensland perspective
Professor Clive Bean, Head of the School of Humanities at QUT, takes a look at what the Beattie resignation means for Queensland politics and how he will be remembered.
Is Peter Beattie really Rudd’s attack dog?
As the Coalition decides that there’s no mileage in personal attacks on Kevin Rudd and adds to its unique method of pork barrel policy a unique “theory of governance” where the “Labor state premiers” require checks and balances from a Liberal government, there’s been some speculation about the response of Queensland Premier Peter Beattie to Ruddism, writes Mark Bahnisch.
