Straya!

[laklak]

Drop birds?

[Hermit]

Where even Roger, the bush kangaroo, wants to have a go at you.

[Brian Peacock]

Well done NSW for finally decriminalising abortion.

[Hermit]

Well done NSW for finally decriminalising abortion.

Much ado about nothing. Formality was just catching up with reality. Between 1960 and 2017 (the latest year I found numbers for) a minimum of 77,469 (1979) and a maximum of 100,462 (2013) legal abortions have been performed annually in the state. Although the number of abortions has been trending up over the years, the rate of abortions has dropped. Between 2001 and 2018 the rate declined from 22.9/1000 to 10.4. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/ ... t-nsw.html

In the past 25 years twelve people have been prosecuted. Four of them were convicted, basically for performing late term or backyard abortions. Nobody was jailed.

Of the four people found guilty, two were handed a juvenile control order in 2002, one person was given bond with supervision in 2006 and one person was given bond without supervision in 2017.

A Sydney doctor became the first person in NSW in 25 years to be found guilty of carrying out an illegal abortion when a NSW Supreme Court jury convicted her in August 2006.

She was sentenced to a two-year good behaviour bond and banned from practising medicine for 10 years.

The doctor was charged after she gave a 20-year-old patient an abortion drug in May 2002, in preparation for a termination procedure at her Fairfield clinic the next day.

But the woman gave birth overnight to a baby boy at about 23 weeks gestation. The child was delivered in a toilet bowl at the woman's home and did not survive.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-history ... ons-in-nsw

[laklak]

According to Mrs Lak we choose our next incarnation based on what we need to learn the next time around the wheel. Obviously 100,000 souls decided on a short visit.

[pErvinalia]

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[JimC]

I'm in the red zone!

[rainbow]

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I can't see why you aren't happy to share a bit of it with a few poor Asians.
Would keep your dingo and rabbit population in check.

[JimC]

We are lead by a climate denier who is an evangelical fuckwit. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/ ... n/11610942

In a speech in Albury last month, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told his audience that he was praying for rain in drought-affected areas.

"I pray for that rain everywhere else around the country," he continued.

"And I do pray for that rain. And I'd encourage others who believe in the power of prayer to pray for that rain and to pray for our farmers. Please do that."

This week, Morrison spoke at a breakfast and praised prayers as "a reminder of our humility and our vulnerability … that forms a unity".

It appears prayer has become part of government public policy.

[Scot Dutchy]

I wish some fucker would stop praying here.

[rainbow]

I wish some fucker would stop praying here.

I'll ask the Good Lord and see what he can do.

[Scot Dutchy]

Thats damn good of you m'boy.

[Seabass]

We are lead by a climate denier who is an evangelical fuckwit.

Wtf, Aussies? That's supposed to be OUR thing!!

[Scot Dutchy]

Is this madness or not:

Australia spends billions planting trees – then wipes out carbon gains by bulldozing them

Little more than two years of land clearing will cancel out the $1.5bn in taxpayer funds that goes towards protecting native habitat

Since 2015 the Australian government has committed more than $1.5bn of taxpayer funds to climate change projects that plant or protect native habitat. Over a slightly longer period it has also spent nearly $62m on a policy to plant 20 million trees promised under Tony Abbott.

At the same time the country has significantly stepped up land-clearing programs in several states, bulldozing hundreds of thousands of hectares of forests, mostly for agriculture.

Official data allows an estimate of the scale of the contrast: little more than two years of land clearing will effectively cancel out what the public is spending to avoid 125 million tonnes of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere. The equivalent to what has been planted over several years in the 20 million trees program is wiped out in just six months of land clearing.

[JimC]

It is an absolute disgrace, and it reflects corrupt deals in marginal rural electorates, as well as authorities not having the manpower to control what happens in remote cattle stations.