Abortion rights activists rallied in Martin Place to support NSW Greens MLC Dr Amanda Cohen’s bill to make abortion more accessible to regional and remote communities across New South Wales. Zebedee Parkes reports.
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Novelist, filmmaker and academic Tracy Sorensen, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, passed away on May 5.ÌýNeville Spencer writes about her life, which included a strong focus on social justice.Ìý
Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist.Ìý
May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it with a 14-year prison sentence for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died, reports Tamara Pearson.
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Four hundred people protested the police murder of young Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed, calling for more funds for mental health and an independent investigation into the shooting. Coral Wynter reports.
The mainstream media pushes the idea that elections are only about deciding which major party forms government. Tony Smith argues that the government-opposition duopoly is wearing thin and preferential voting helps.
Not-for-profit frontline mental health services are being forced to beg for small change as they manage the fall-out from the mental health funding model. Suzanne James reports.
Community members, aged care workers and politicians attended a snap protest against the City of Greater Geelong Council’s intention to close its aged care service. Angela Carr reports.
Israel’s pattern of institutional response to alleged war crimes is well rehearsed, writes Binoy Kampmark.
NSW doctors, campaigning for a new award for more than a year, have been forced to take industrial action after Labor refused to pay the same as other states. Pip Hinman reports.
The honeymoon, if there was one, is over for Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro. Suzanne James reports on the growing pushback against her riding roughshod over democracy.
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