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(SMH) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is stripping away a woman's right to have her baby at home, protesters around the country have been told. Hundreds of people have come together across Australia at 13 simultaneous rallies to protest against the government's planned overhaul of maternity care. NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon told a crowd of about 100 in Sydney that access to a homebirth was a woman's right. "We are in an extraordinary situation when a woman can choose to have a caesarean but she can't choose to have her children at home," Ms Rhiannon said outside the office of the federal Minister for the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek. Ms Rhiannon said the government had succumbed to pressure from Australian Medical Association, which is opposed to home birthing. The proposed new laws, introduced to parliament last year, will require all midwives to be insured and part of a new national register. But a two-year exemption will apply for up to 200 independent midwives, who are unable to gain insurance because it is no longer provided for home birthing. They will also have to work in collaboration with a doctor - who will be able to override their decisions - to access Medicare insurance and pharmaceutical benefits for homebirths. The overhaul has outraged homebirth groups, which say the practice will be forced underground, a concern that was also highlighted in a recent Senate inquiry. Christine Wrightson, who had two planned home births, one of which ended up being in hospital due to complications, told the crowd in Sydney that it was not for the government to decide how women give birth. "I had one child in hospital and one was born at home - for both births we chose to be under the care of a privately practising midwife," Ms Wrightson said. "This was because it was extremely important to me to minimise the chance of medical intervention as I strived to have a natural birth. "At the time I never imagined that this could be something the government could take away from me - not in Australia and not in 2010." Less than one per cent of births registered each year in Australia are homebirths. By contrast, The Netherlands has the highest home birth rate in the western world at around 30 per cent. source
(SMH) A program in which every school child in Australia would be given an identity number so their academic progress could be tracked through their school life is expected to be announced by the federal government as early as today. The Herald understands the number, to be known as a ''unique student identifier'', will be annexed to the My School program, which publishes the performance of individual schools on the internet. [...] The ''unique student identifier'' is expected to cause controversy and raise privacy concerns. read more
(Truth News Radio) Tonight we catch up on some of the latest milestones in the ongoing state run program to strip citizens of their rights, reduce their identities to numbers, track, trace and spy on their every movement. As reported in the Australian on 15 Jan: Last August, former human services minister Chris Ellison overturned a ban on the use of Medicare data for other purposes through a controversial legislative amendment. read / hear more
Yes we know Smith isn't real, but the quadrillion something 16 digit identifier number is. With 22+ million Australian's we would need eight digits, or maybe nine if we wanted to get carried away. learn more
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is the latest to join a swathe of groups opposed to the Federal Government’s plans to introduce mandatory ISP-level Internet content filtering. [...] In a statement, the association said Australia needs to take action to ensure that internet users, particularly children, have a safe experience online, but it voiced concern that the policy may give parents a false sense of security and encourage them to reduce their supervision. “As a large proportion of child sexual abuse content is not found on public websites, but in chat-rooms or peer-to-peer networks, we know the proposed filtering regime will not effectively protect children from this objectionable material,” the statement said. “We are concerned that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide. Filtering all RC material could block content with a strong social or educational value.” read more
(SMH) The Victorian government has ordered a review of controversial smart meters after the state auditor-general warned electricity consumers would be worse off. The Essential Services Commission will conduct the review "to ensure vulnerable Victorians are not disadvantaged", it was announced on Wednesday. Smart meters will be rolled out to 2.4 million homes and small businesses over the next four years. They communicate directly with power suppliers, enabling them to set peak and off-peak rates. read more
(SMH) AUSTRALIA Post has been accused of secretly monitoring Sydney postal workers using computerised street-side red letter boxes in breach of NSW surveillance laws. [...] Australia Post has argued in the Federal Court that the Australian Postal Corporation Act makes its use of the Cyberlock system exempt from state law. [..] The CEPU secretary, Jim Metcher, said the outcome of the case could affect all federal employers if Australia Post successfully argued that state-based surveillance laws did not apply to its workers. An Australia Post spokeswoman said yesterday...''Australia Post is a Commonwealth government business enterprise and as such Commonwealth legislation will prevail over state-based legislation,'' she said. ''In our view, the NSW Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 does not apply to Australia Post.'' read more
Spying on all Australian workers is either right or wrong, not right and wrong.
(SMH) LAW enforcement agencies are pressing the federal government to introduce mandatory fingerprinting for 200,000 airport and port employees to reduce the risks of terrorism and criminal infiltration of the aviation and shipping work forces. CrimTrac, the agency that carries out checks on criminal records of workers with access to sensitive areas in airports and sea ports, has told a parliamentary inquiry that existing name-based background checks can be evaded with the use of aliases or assumed identities. read more
In 2010 CrimTrac is only just now worried about taking finger prints to stop evasion "with the use of aliases or assumed identities"? Did they just get back from a nine year smoko break after September 11, 2001?? Those boggie man terrorists have had nine years to "evade" Australia but must have been on holiday as well? Will CrimTrac destroy employees finger prints when they leave airport and port industries or will they stay on a national guilty until proven innocent data base forever?
"Australians are unable to account for a third of the cash they spend each week, despite more than 50 per cent of people trying to stick to a budget, a survey shows. Australia has one of the highest proportional rates of cash spending which cannot be accounted for, a Visa survey shows. [...] The survey showed Australians cannot pinpoint where they spend $3,068 per year." read more
Ow how lucky we are having an unelected private company that hates “cash” out looking through our wallets seeking to learn where we spend untraceable “cash”. In the complete two hundred and twenty five (225) worded SMH article partly quoted above, we see the word "cash" used seven (7) times. We wonder why VISA head hoon Peter Ayliffe is caring about where you spend you're untraceable "cash"? Hey Peter Ayliffe, they might be spending "cash" on lead and powder in preparedness for the day your new world odor hoon mates have to face off with we the people?
related: "Cashless society by 2012, says Visa chief"
The Daily Mercury: "Flouride not a risk to babies" "PARENTS shouldn’t be fearful of adding fluoride to their baby’s formula, Queensland Health says. There have been concerns that the practice can increase the risk of dental fluorosis as some formulas contain a relatively high amount of fluoride. However, research by Queensland Health Scientific Services shows that infant formulas commercially available in Australia contain low levels of fluoride." read more and please vote on the MSN poll that is 55% against
The 'Daily Mercury' left out a few 'safe level' pointers... *Babies powdered formula is not eaten dry. *Most town water added to babies formula is also fluorinated. *Fluoride added to our publics drinking water is "mass medication" *At bath / shower time we absorb fluoride through skin and lungs (via steam) *Fluoride is in other foods like bread etc *Fluoride allows toxic metals to enter the brain. *Communist Russians and Nazi Germans used this tool to dumb people down into sheeple. * MSN bleat questions about teeth "concerns" only leaving out internal effects of this mass medication. learn more
SMH.COM.AU "Big Brother laws to be brought in for web" " THE Federal Government will block selected online sites after trials found filtering was accurate and would not slow down the internet. But critics, including the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam, said the trial results were not surprising and the policy was still flawed. [...] A version of the Government's list of banned sites was leaked on to the web in March, revealing that the scope of the filtering could extend significantly beyond child porn. About half were not related to child porn and included links to poker sites, YouTube, gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia, euthanasia sites, fringe religions, fetish sites, Christian sites, a tour operator and a Queensland dentist." read more
Those "smut peddlers" that created the porn industry to "defile Christian culture" would be happy "Christian sites" are getting banned. Lucky for His Lord's people there's free bypass filter software like TOR or these free proxy web sites like this one and this one. Also learn what a VPN is. Amen.
