Queensland Abortion Laws: Criminalising One in Three Women

Time to repeal outdated abortion laws in New South Wales and Queensland.

the accused . had an honest belief on reasonable grounds that what they did was necessary to preserve the woman involved from serious danger to their life, or physical or mental health, which the continuance of the pregnancy would entail, not merely the normal dangers of pregnancy and childbirth, and that in the circumstances the danger of the operation was not out of proportion to the danger i...

Review of abortion laws.

a major problem when my generation of GPs retires and IUD fitters will not be replaced. Surely the role of the Faculty should be to increase and encourage training, rather than to stick to rigid and outdated requirements? The present LoC IUT allows a doctor to fit any device once they have completed seven insertions. This means that they could fit six Mirenas and one Flexi-T® and then be deemed...

Issues in Juvenile Justice in Queensland: New Laws, Old Visions

ON 4 AUGUST 1992, THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT PASSED THE Juvenile Justice Act 1992 and the Children's Court Act 1992. The legislation, which it is anticipated will be proclaimed in early 1993, repeals the juvenile justice provisions of the Children's Services Act 1965. It provides the legislative framework for the administration of juvenile justice in Queensland, and thus the ethos of this legisl...

Criminalising hacking tools

Making the sale, possession and distribution of the tools of hacking a criminal offence has obvious attractions. But many such tools are dual use and new laws run the risk of significantly inhibiting the activities of investigators, incident responders, penetration testers and academics. Recent UK attempts at framing such a law are discussed in order to show the broader problems of policy and w...

New Brunswick assailed over "sexist" abortion laws.