By definition, they are unlikely to all fall in together behind Indonesia and two of the largest members, India and Pakistan, are nuclear powers but non-signatories to the NPT.
Sugiono argues Indonesia could have made a stronger case to convince other countries to join its cause if it had directly referenced Australia and AUKUS.
A US Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine. Credit:AP
The submission was one of three on nuclear-fueled submarines made to the conference. The others were a joint submission from the AUKUS countries Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, and by China, a fervent opponent of the deal.
“By pointing at the actual case [Australia and AUKUS] we could build a strong argument to convince other countries that we must do something,” Sugiono said.
“The reason for not mentioning it since the beginning is perhaps that Indonesia does not want to disturb its relations with Australia.”
“I am not so optimistic because our working paper was not firm enough to express what we wanted.”
Even if Indonesia’s case for re-working the NPT fails its uneasiness is not going to go away.
A recent poll by Australia’s Lowy Institute indicated there was low public awareness of Australia’s submarine project in Indonesia – only 11 per cent of Indonesians had heard of AUKUS, with 28 per cent believing it would make their country less safe.
Indonesia’s anxiety has not morphed into a diplomatic flashpoint – and Australia has avoided another potential one by refusing calls to shut the border over a foot and mouth disease outbreak.
But Susannah Patton, the South-East Asia program director at the Lowy Institute, believes that while differences over AUKUS can be managed in the short term, Australia’s submarine ambitions stand to have lasting implications on its relationships with Indonesia and with others in the region.
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“Those concerns [of Indonesia] are things that Australia should be worried about because it points to the fact that Australia and Indonesia have very different world views and that will have an impact on our long-term relationship,” she said.
“It will have an impact on the kind of things Indonesia is willing to support us on and on the kind of activities that Indonesia would be willing to join, in terms of regional minilateral groups or other diplomatic issues.”
Patton said Indonesia’s apprehension underscored the need for Australia to make a much greater effort in providing strategic reassurance to Indonesia as well as messages of deterrence to China. Australia needs to also do a better job of having meaningful consultation with Indonesia “not just on AUKUS, but on a whole range of deterrent capabilities that the ADF [Australian Defence Force] is going to be investing in,” she said.
A dentist was found guilty by a federal jury on Monday of fatally shooting his wife in the heart on a big game hunting trip to Zambia in 2016 and then collecting nearly $4.9 million in insurance benefits.
The jury found the dentist, Lawrence Rudolph, guilty on one count of murder of a US national in a foreign country and one count of mail fraud after deliberating for a day and a half at the conclusion of a three-week trial in a federal courtroom in Denver.
Bianca Rudolph, Dr. Rudolph’s wife of 34 years, died at the end of a hunting trip. Dr. Rudolph, 67, who goes by Larry, pleaded not guilty to her death in January.
“We are thankful for the jury’s diligence looking at all the evidence in this case,” Cole Finegan, the US attorney for the district of Colorado, said in a statement. “Bianca Rudolph served justice.”
Dr. Rudolph’s lawyers will appeal the decision, David Oscar Markus, a criminal trial lawyer based in Miami, said. Two of Dr. Rudolph’s adult children signed affidavits saying they believed in his innocence of him.
“We are extremely disappointed,” his lawyers said in a statement. “We believe in Larry and his children by him.”
Dr. Rudolph, who is set to be sentenced on Feb. 1, 2023, could face a maximum penalty of life in prison or the death penalty for the murder charge. The mail fraud charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
In 2016, the couple went to Zambia, traveling to the Kafue National Park, an area roughly the size of New Jersey that is popular with safari operators. It is home to cheetahs, hippos, lions, rare antelopes and leopards, the last of which Ms. Rudolph hoped to hunt on the trip.
A hunting guide and game scout said they rushed to the cabin on the morning of Oct. 11, 2016, after they heard a gunshot, according to federal court documents. They saw Ms. Rudolph bleeding from her left side of her chest. Dr. Rudolph said his wife had accidentally discharged the shotgun as she was putting it away, while he was in the bathroom.
Local Zambian law enforcement determined that Ms. Rudolph’s death was an accident.
Investigators later said that Dr. Rudolph had been involved in a relationship with Lori Milliron during the marriage and at the time of his wife’s death, and that he had made adjustments to the life insurance policies for her that same year. Prosecutors argued during the trial that Dr. Rudolph killed his wife for financial reasons and to be with Ms. Milliron.
“I absolutely did not shoot my wife,” Dr. Rudolph said at the trial on Wednesday, according to The Colorado Springs Gazette. “I did not murder my wife for insurance. I did not murder my wife to be with Lori Milliron or anyone else.”
Ms. Milliron was found guilty of being an accessory to murder, obstruction of justice and two counts of perjury before the grand jury. She is the manager of his dentistry practice in Greensburg, Pa., according to court documents.
She will remain free with an ankle monitor until sentencing, according to The Associated Press. Ms. Milliron was found not guilty on three other counts of perjury. Her lawyer de ella did not respond to requests for comment.
“We can only hope this verdict brings Bianca’s family some amount of peace,” Mr. Finegan, the US attorney, said.
Dr. Rudolph told investigators that a Browning 12-gauge shotgun went off by accident as Ms. Rudolph was packing it. He sought to have her body cremated not long after her death, which made US consular officials suspicious. At the time, he cited the inconvenience of moving the body internationally, but investigators noted that Dr. Rudolph had arranged for several large animals he hunted to be transported internationally in the past.
A friend of Ms. Rudolph also told FBI officials that it was unlikely she would have wanted to be cremated because of her religious views.
The Zambia Police Service determined the “firearm was loaded from the previous hunting activities, and the normal safety precautions at the time of packing the firearm were not taken into consideration, causing the firearm to accidentally fire,” according to a summary cited in federal court documents.
But when the FBI and US consular officials tried to reconstruct the shooting, they determined it was unlikely she had accidentally pulled the trigger. They said that she had been shot from six and a half to eight feet away.
A young Aussie traffic controller has hit back at trolls who made fun of her job by revealing she can make up to $750 a day working on the roads.
Road worker Chloe Brianna took to TikTok to clap back at trolls who said she was “standing around doing nothing” and told her to “get a real job”.
The young woman responded to the cruel comments by revealing just how much she makes each week as a road worker.
In a now-viral video, Chloe, who works in Victoria, claims she earned an eye-watering $3073.75 in a week as a FIFO worker – which totaled $2280.75 after tax.
“What I make in a wheel, nightshift and living away as a traffic controller” she wrote.
“Monday 13 hours – $672.44 + $76.88 living away allowance. Tuesday 12 hours – $606.22 + $76.88 living away allowance.
“Wednesday 12 hours – $606.22 + $76.88 living away allowance. Thursday 12 hours – $606.22 + $76.88 living away allowance.
Chloe’s video rapidly went viral and now sits at over 1 million views.
In a few other follow up videos, she showed that her weekly rate can differ depending on where she works and her hours.
While she might make over $3,000 one week, another week she took home $2,379.
If Chloe makes an average of $2,500 a week, this would still see her bring in $130,000 a year.
She also cleared up that when working away from home, her accommodation if paid for – but she still needs to buy her own groceries, like she would at home.
“Honestly this is one of the best jobs in the world” she wrote on her TikTok page.
“It can be mentally challenging sometimes but tt’s so worth it.
“So much traveling and meeting new people every day. Wouldn’t change it for the world.”
While many applauded her success and inquired as to how they could get into the industry, others attacked Chloe’s career choice.
“Ridiculous how much they get paid to stand with a stop sign, listening to music and scrolling on your phone” one person said.
“Paid for just standing there, what a world.”
“Half a brain, twice the $$$, any mentally challenged person could do this” one troll taunted.
“Way to choose an easy and unskilled job.”
Many in the industry jumped to Chloe’s defense and to test that the job is not as “easy” as some perceive.
“People need to understand it’s not just standing around” one person said.
“We need to be always on our game for anything.”
“It’s actually harder than people think” another said.
“I’m a traffic controller and some of the abuse we get is brutal.”
There’s been a raft of intriguing strategy RPGs this yearbut one of my favorites so far is Symphony of War. It’s been climbing the charts on Steam in recent months, and for good reason. From a distance it looks like another Fire Emblem knockoff. Up close it’s doing enough interesting things to stand on its own, and I really recommend you give it a shot.
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga quietly came out on Steam in June and has been rack uppositive reviewsever since. Developed by an indie team called Dancing Dragon Games with a history of RPG Maker projects, it’s a trope-filled military drama about civil war and demonic threats. But you can pretty much ignore all that. Beneath the predictable plot and airbrushed character portraits is a deep strategy game that’s hard to put down. Personally, I think it’s even better in the strategy department than Triangle Strategy.
Make no mistake: Symphony of War is old-school. While newer entries in the Fire Emblem series have delved deeper into visual novel elements and relationship mechanics, it’s focused almost exclusively on renewing the nuts and bolts of classic grid-based battles. What works so well is that Symphony of War nails the basics and also adds plenty of new wrinkles for fans to dig into (especially those who also dug last year’s Dark Deity).
gif: Dancing Dragon Games / Kotaku
The biggest one is that each individual unit represents an entire squad made up multiple types of fighters. Maybe there are some knights in front flanked by pikemen while wizards and archers rain down death from the back. When two units move next to each other and throw down, a mini-turn-based skirmish ensues. Mages in the back cast fireballs and healing spells while knights in the front dish out melee damage. Combat unfolds across two rounds, with attackers getting the first turn and the defending side going second. Some fighters can only attack on the first or second turn, while others will occasionally luck into a bonus turn. The action is easy to follow and yet also opens up plenty of room for customization.
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Adding more subtle layers of complexity are unique fighter bonuses and an extensive research tree. Horseback fighters get to attack first without retribution. Infantry provide defensive bonuses to nearby units. And archers can naturally attack from a distance without facing counter-attacks. These and other stats can then be augmented and magnified by researching new tech. Rather than leveling up specific units, you’re growing the overall capabilities of your army.
screenshot: Dancing Dragon Games
in this way Symphony of War forces you to sometimes think like a 4X strategist while playing like a traditional JRPG enthusiast. Instead of customizing one single party and fighting through a dungeon, you’re building up a small army of them and taking on a whole battlefield. Completing missions faster and capturing enemy units and buildings along the way nets you extra money and points that can then be poured back into outfitting your various crews. Just a few novel tweaks and the decades-old tactical JRPG formula feels fresh and modern again in 2022.
A few other games have also taken hybrid approaches to tactical RPGs recently. The Iron Oath and Songs of Conquest both come to mind. The former is a roguelike with battles that take place on a hexagonal grid. The latter also sports a hexagonal battlefield in service of map exploration and city-building closer to a 4X game. They’re really promising games in their own right (and still in Early Access), yet neither is as focused on plumbing the depths of leveraging small advantages so one group of animated sprites can wipe the floor with another.
Symphony of War is far from a perfect package, but it offers one of the more meaty and innovative takes on the tactics RPG formula I’ve come across in years.
when Home and Away returns later this month, there’s a baby bombshell for Ziggy and Dean, while a strange package in the mail suggests Marilyn may have a secret child.
Home and Away is currently off the air in Australia until after the Commonwealth Games, and a number of promos have been released teasing the drama in store when the show returns on Monday 8th August.
The first shows a favorite fighting for their life – Read more here. Now, a further promo has been released, indicating what looks to be two baby bombshells for the residents of Summer Bay!
The first surprise is for Ziggy (Sophie Dillman) and Dean (Patrick O’Connor), with Ziggy seen holding a positive pregnancy test in one version of the promo.
We’ve already been expecting this news in the coming months, with Sophie Dillman having been seen filming at Palm Beach with a baby bump recently, by attendees of Celebtime’s Home and Away tour.
Photo courtesy of CelebTime’s Home and Away Tour
Back in 2019, Dean had told Ziggy that he never wanted to have children, worrying that his mother Karen’s (Georgia Adamson) schizoaffective disorder could be passed down through his genes.
However, he seemed to change his tune after discovering he already had a son, Jai (River Jarvis), who he’d never known about. In a brief rekindling of his relationship with Jai’s mother Amber (Maddy Jevic), Dean even suggested having more children.
So how will Dean react to the news that Ziggy is expecting, and is Ziggy herself even ready to become a mother? At the moment Ziggy is quite settled working as a mechanic at Justin’s garage, whilst also having committed to being Theo’s (Matt Evans) mentor through an apprenticeship.
Dean and Ziggy had also planned to take another road trip, this time up to Cairns to see Ziggy’s sister Coco, before Ziggy chose to stay and help Theo. If they’re soon to have a baby to juggle, the two can probably say goodbye to any other such activities in the near future!
The promo also shows a newly single Theo sharing a kiss with newcomer Kirby (Angelina Thomson). Theo broke up with Chloe (Sam Barrett) following her sudden departure from Summer Bay two weeks ago, which Tane (Ethan Browne) had organized for her own protection of her.
Whilst Chloe went to New Zealand to be with her mother Mia (Anna Samson), Tane warned Chloe that she shouldn’t tell Theo where she is for the time being. With Chloe’s continued refusal to give Theo any details, their relationship came to an end.
We’d previously reported on Theo and Kirby getting together, after the two were spotted holding hands on several occasions whilst filming scenes at Palm Beach.
Photo courtesy of CelebTime’s Home and Away Tour
The most intriguing snippet in the promo, however, revolved around Marilyn (Emily Symons).
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Channel 5’s commissioning editor Greg Barnett recently teased that there would be a huge storyline involving Marilyn, and what looks to be the beginning of this has been cryptically hinted at.
Marilyn is shown opening an envelope, in which there is a photo of a baby. She appears to recognize the child, and on turning the photo over, she finds a message written on her back…
“Guess who?”
Does one of the bay’s longest-serving residents have a dark secret that’s about to come to light?
Let’s take a look at some of the possibilities…
Is Byron Fisher alive?
Now there’s a question that we’d never expected to be speculating on.
Marilyn and Donald Fisher’s (Norman Coburn) baby son died nearly 23 years ago, and it was this heartbreak that led to the breakdown of their marriage.
While Byron’s death occurred off-screen in the US, which would be an obvious advantage for storyliners tempted to go down this route, it would be hugely controversial with long-term fans if the show were to undo one of 1999’s most emotional storylines. As such, we find it a rather unlikely option.
However it wouldn’t be the first time in recent years that a retcon had occurred, given the return of Martha Stewart (Belinda Giblin) in 2018—whose apparent death back in 1985 (now explained to have been faked) provided one of the foundations that the very beginnings of the show were built on.
So, let’s take a look at what we know about Byron…
After marrying Donald in 1996, Marilyn was keen to start a family. They fell pregnant with a son, Oscar, in 1997, but Marilyn sadly suffered a miscarriage.
With fibroids meaning that she’d be unlikely to be able to carry a child to full-term, Marilyn underwent surgery to remove them in 1998, and later that year the pair were delighted to learn she was pregnant again.
Marilyn gave birth to Byron Vincent Fisher in February 1999, but after being placed under anesthetic in order to have her son delivered via an emergency caesarean, she struggled to bond with her son. Marilyn disappeared for two months, suffering from post-natal depression, whilst Donald placed Byron under the care of live-in nanny Ellen Porter (Anne Grigg).
Marilyn eventually returned and came to terms with motherhood, before tragedy struck again when Byron was diagnosed with liver cancer at six months old, which had already spread to his lungs.
Byron was taken by Donald and Marilyn to a prestigious private clinic in the US, with Donald returning to Summer Bay two weeks later in order to raise further funds whilst Marilyn and Byron stayed in Seattle, initially lodging with Colleen’s cousin Charlie.
Early news was good, with Byron responding well to chemotherapy, but he soon took a turn for the worse. In the final week of the 1999 season, Donald was devastated to receive a call from the hospital to say that Byron had died as the result of an infection.
Marilyn was said to have been sedated in the hours after Byron’s death, but just as Donald was preparing to fly overseas, he learned that she had gone missing.
With no sign of Marilyn on his arrival in the US, Donald spoke to a chaplain she had befriended, Father MacGuire, who had been asked to perform a service if anything happened to Byron. In accordance with Marilyn’s wishes, Byron was laid to rest in the states, with only Donald and Charlie in attendance. Donald later received a letter from Marilyn stating that it would be too painful for her to return to Summer Bay, putting an end to their marriage from her.
If this were proven to be untrue, it begs the question as to how it could be done in a realistic fashion—could there have been some outlandish baby-swap/cover-up at the hospital?
There’s also a storyline from 2010 to consider, where Marilyn saw a vision of an 11-year-old Byron in a dream. While it could be argued that this doesn’t prove anything regarding Byron being dead or alive, the sighting had only come as a result of Marilyn dreaming about Miles Copeland’s (Josh Quong-Tart) deceased daughter Amber, affectionately known as Rabbit.
Marilyn did not know Rabbit’s true identity until she saw a sketch that Miles, who had been seeing visions of Rabbit himself during a period of depression, had drawn. She immediately recognized her as being the same girl from her dream of her, indicating that it had not merely been part of Marilyn’s imagination of her.
Does Marilyn have a secret child?
While still potentially controversial, a somewhat less drastic theory is that Marilyn has at some point given birth to another child during her years away from Summer Bay.
Marilyn first appeared in Summer Bay in 1989, as the girlfriend of Lance Smart (Peter Vroom). At this point Marilyn was 20 years old, and had spent the latter years of her childhood being brought up by her aunt Jean (Maggie Kirkpatrick), who had taken Marilyn out of the children’s home she’d been placed in by her parents de ella .
In 1991, Jean delivered the bombshell that Marilyn’s good-for-nothing parents, George and Heather Davidson (Doug Scroope & Lynn Rainbow), were actually alive—and had simply put Marilyn in the home as she didn’t suit their life as carnival workers—but she at no point mentioned Marilyn having given up a baby.
If Marilyn were to have had a child pre-Summer Bay, they would now be around 34-37 years old.
Marilyn and Lance / Marilyn departs with Phil and Toni in 1992
Although Marilyn previously had a three-month break from Summer Bay in 1989 after turning down Lance’s marriage proposal, she didn’t leave the bay again until her exit with fiancé Phil Bryant (Vince Martin) and his daughter Toni (Kathryn Dufty) in 1992 .
Marilyn was away for nearly 3 years until her return in 1995, having left Phil as soon as she discovered he had been cheating on her. There was certainly no mention of her having left a toddler with Phil, and we imagine he’d have shown up in Summer Bay if she had done so.
Following Marilyn’s departure in 1999, it would be nearly two years before we saw her again. Could Marilyn have been pregnant when she left Summer Bay with another of Donald’s children, who she chose to give up? That would seem unnecessarily cruel on Donald… and undermine their later conversations about how she was dealing with her grief from Ella over Byron, so we’ll count that one out.
When Donald met up with Marilyn in London in 2001, after spotting her at the launching of his book “A Letter to Byron“, Marilyn had two primary school aged children with her as well as one in a pram, but soon explained to Donald that she was working as a childminder.
Did Marilyn go on to have a child at some point in the early-mid 2000s, whilst in the UK, who would now be in their late teens or very early 20s?
This would perhaps seem the most likely option given the timeframes. There were 8½ years between Marilyn’s first meeting with Donald in London and her eventual return to Australia in 2010, in which time she could have left behind a new partner and child, or had a baby put up for adoption.
Donald had also visited Marilyn off-screen, as she battled cancer in 2007, so any child would likely have come before then.
Marilyn’s return to Summer Bay in 2010
Again, a secret child for a long-established character isn’t something that’s unusual to Home and Away. Alf (Ray Meagher) has had two of his own (Quinn and Owen) come to light over the past 34 years, with his wife Ailsa (Judy Nunn) also revealing that she’d had a daughter, Shauna (Kylie Watson), whilst in prison in the 1970s.
Even in more recent years, Summer Bay stalwart Irene (Lynne McGranger) confessed that she had a long-lost child, eventually revealed to be Mick Jennings (Kristian Schmid), who she’d been forced to give up after being abused by her uncle in her teens.
A Wicked Hoax?
Could it just be the case that someone has something against Marilyn, and is playing mind games by trying to convince her that Byron is alive?
It’s easy to see how Marilyn could start second-guessing herself given her fragile state at the time of Byron’s death, particularly if she’d had to be sedated in the hours immediately afterwards and hadn’t attended his funeral—but could Marilyn really have such an enemy out there, cruel enough to see her suffer like that?
Whatever the reason, we’re sure that Marilyn’s world is about to be shaken up, and it surely can’t be long before the person behind (or in) the photo shows their face in Summer Bay…
Home and Away returns to Australia on Monday 8th August, 7pm on Seven.
Mundy’s first match was a 143-129 win over Neale Daniher’s Melbourne at the MCG. Read that scoreline and weep. Alongside Mundy were Bell, Matthew Pavlich, Jeff Farmer, Paul Hasleby, Des Headland and a certain Justin Longmuir. Facing him were David Neitz, Russell Robertson, Brad Green, Aaron Davey, Brock McLean, Adam Yze, and Travis Johnstone. This is a wonky old time machine.
David Mundy looks to handball.Credit:Getty Images
Mundy immediately, and permanently, installed himself. He has played 17 games in that debut season and only eleven since he has played fewer games in a season. He was third in the Rising Star, behind Brett Deledio, but leaving Lance Franklin as an also-ran.
At least 15 of Mundy’s 2022 listmates had not started school then and were blithely unaware of the Dockers, let alone the straggly-haired rookie. Of the 236 players who have represented the club, Mundy has played alongside 147 and counting.
Only 10 Fremantle players other than him have reached 200 games, and Mundy has played in the milestone game of every one of them, and Michael Walters will soon make an 11th. I have kept signing long-term contracts. Whenever he might have thought about a change of Guernsey, Fremantle changed their own. He has also worn untold iterations of it.
Only 10 Fremantle players other than him have reached 200 games, and Mundy has played in the milestone game of every one of them, and Michael Walters will soon make an 11th.
Mundy won a best-and-fairest, made an All-Australian team, played in a grand final, captained the Dockers for a year and has been a life member for 10 years. There were a couple of mark-of-the-year nominations in his youth, and a quirky predilection for last-kick winners against Richmond.
David Mundy, right, celebrates a goal with Sean Darcy.Credit:Getty Images
It might look like a modest tablecloth. Even Fremantle struggled to define him. Their banner for his 250th acclaimed “250 solid games”. One hundred and twenty more have followed.
Rather than any singular skill, prodigious feat, commission or trophy, Mundy’s monument is his durability and loyalty. He keeps getting himself up for games, and keeps getting himself to where he needs to be within games, quarter after quarter, year after year. He has missed very few, and has always been worth the next for nearly two decades.
In celebrating his career, Fremantle made a point of noting that he had led the club in all-time disposals, clearances and tackles. He has been the consummate modern footballer, the players’ player. And he still is.
As a long-termer near the end, the standard formulation is to say that the club will be doing it for him. For whatever remains of this season, you can be sure the Dockers will be doing it for Mundy but, just as crucially, he will be doing it for them.
In many other sports, they would retire his No.16 Guernsey – except that it would probably keep playing anyway.
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Fifteen per cent of clients seeking pregnancy counseling have been subjected to “reproduction coercion and abuse”, a study has found, as new polling suggests a majority of Australian voters want governments to take action to address barriers to accessing abortion care.
The new article, published in the journal Reproductive Health, says the 15% of people seeking pregnancy counseling after unplanned pregnancies were subjected to either “pregnancy preventing” or “pregnancy promoting” behaviour. The article defines reproduction coercion and abuse (RCA) as “behaviour that interferes with a person’s decision to become pregnant or to continue the pregnancy”.
The research comes as Essential polling undertaken for the Fair Agenda, an organization that campaigns for gender equality, found strong public support for reproductive rights.
According to a survey of 1,082 respondents taken in late July, 72% of Australians agreed with the proposition that Australian governments should ensure that patients who want abortion care can access it.
A majority (71%) agreed that religious beliefs should not impact on a person’s access to abortion care, 70% agreed nurses should be appropriately trained for the purposes of abortion care without risk of criminalization and 69% agreed that governments should take action to address barriers to accessing abortion care faced by many patients in rural and regional areas, or those experiencing domestic violence.
Voters over the age of 55 were more likely to favor reproductive rights than younger people, although this reflects a tendency in the survey for voters aged between 18 and 34 to select either “neutral” or “prefer not to answer” in respect to some of the questions.
The issue of abortion was discussed at a meeting of state and federal women’s safety ministers in July, with mounting concerns about reproductive freedom after the US supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. No firm commitments were made.
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Alyssa Shaw, a spokesperson for Fair Agenda, said it was time for the Albanese government to address the barriers for women accessing abortion care by including services in Medicare.
Shaw said the federal health minister, Mark Butler, could take “immediate steps to remove barriers faced by women in Australia by including medical abortion care as a Medicare item number and subsidising the cost, up to $500”.
“Abortion care should be included in Medicare as a start in addressing the barriers many women face in accessing abortion, especially those in regional or rural Australia, and those experiencing domestic violence,” Shaw said.
The new journal article found that 15.4% of the 5,107 women studied had experienced RCA. Of those, 6% experienced coercion towards pregnancy, and 7.5% experienced coercion towards prevention or abortion. 1.9% experienced both, which the researchers said could be from the same person with contradictory behavior or changing “rules”, or the same person being coerced both ways by different abusers.
“Common behaviors associated with RCA that are promoting pregnancy include contraceptive sabotage, forced sex to cause pregnancy, emotional pressure, threats and/or violence to become pregnant or continue a pregnancy,” the researchers (which included experts from various universities, MSI Australia, and Children by Choice) found.
“Common behaviors associated with RCA that are preventing pregnancy include forced contraception use or sterilisation, emotional pressure, threats and/or violence to ensure a pregnancy is terminated, or physical violence to induce a miscarriage,” they found.
The authors said age, whether a person was from a migrant or refugee community, or an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, did not “meaningfully predict” the risk of RCA. That means the systems of healthcare, health education and health research need to implement culturally safe approaches to RCA, they said.
MSI Australia is also calling for a federal approach to abortion and pregnancy counseling so it is fairer, more equitable and more accessible.
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that Idaho’s near-total abortion ban violates federal law — the Biden administration’s first legal action to protect abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in late June.
In making the announcement at DOJ’s headquarters, Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters that Idaho’s ban violates a federal law that requires medical providers to offer emergency medical treatment.
Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), every hospital in the US that receives Medicare funds must provide “necessary stabilizing treatment to patients who arrive at their emergency departments while experiencing a medical emergency,” the 17-page complaint reads. In some circumstances, the necessary medical treatment is an abortion.
“This may be the case, for example, when a woman is undergoing a miscarriage that threatens septic infection or hemorrhage, or is suffering from severe preeclampsia,” Garland said.
People protest against the Supreme Court decision in Boise, Idaho on July 20, 2022.Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via Getty Images file
Idaho’s law, which is set to take effect on Aug. 25, “will make it a felony to perform an abortion in all but extremely narrow circumstances,” the complaint said, including when doctors provide emergency medical treatment required by federal law.
The suit seeks a declaratory judgment stating that Idaho’s law violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and is preempted and conflicts with federal law. It also seeks a judgment that Idaho may not initiate a prosecution against or attempt to revoke the professional license of any medical provider who performs an abortion authorized under federal law. The department also called for a preliminary and permanent injunction against the state of Idaho to prohibit enforcement of its abortion ban when it conflicts with federal law.
“In the days since the Dobbs decision, there have been widespread reports of delays and denials of treatment to pregnant women experiencing medical emergencies,” Garland said. “Today, the Justice Department’s message is clear — it does not matter what state a hospital subject to EMTALA operates in. If a patient comes into the emergency room with a medical emergency, jeopardizing the patient’s life or health, the hospital must provide the treatment necessary to stabilize that patient. This includes abortion, and that is the necessary treatment.”
in to statement Tuesday, Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, said he would work with Idaho’s attorney general to defend the state law “in the face of federal meddling.”
“Our nation’s highest court returned the issue of abortion to the states to regulate — end of story,” Little said. “The US Justice Department’s interference with Idaho’s pro-life law is another example of Biden overreaching yet again while he continues to ignore issues that really should demand his attention from him — like crushing inflation and the open border with Mexico.”
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who leads the Justice Department’s reproductive rights task force, said during the announcement Tuesday that Idaho’s law places the burden on doctors to provide at trial, following arrest and indictment, that they are not criminally liable.
“Physicians can only do so by proving that the abortion they performed was necessary for one of two reasons: to prevent the death of a pregnant woman, or in response to a case of rape or incest that was previously reported to the police or in the case of a minor to Child Protective Services. Physicians who do not meet this burden face two to five years imprisonment and revocation of their medical license,” Gupta said.
The legal action comes several weeks after Garland said the department would be advising federal agencies on their authorities when it comes to protecting access to abortions, bringing litigation and entering lawsuits on the side of private parties with amicus briefs and statements of interest.
“The Justice Department is going to use every tool we have to ensure reproductive freedom,” he told reporters. He also said that his office would file a motion to dismiss a Texas lawsuit challenging guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services requiring medical providers to offer abortions in emergency situations.
The federal law on which the guidance is based “requires hospitals to provide stabilizing care for a patient who comes in with a medical emergency that seriously compromises their life or their health,” Garland said. “And where that stabilizing treatment is abortion, they must provide the abortion. They must do so notwithstanding a state law that is so narrow that it doesn’t even protect a woman’s life or health.”
On Friday, Garland, Gupta and other DOJ officials agreed to a meeting of private law firms, law professors, bar associations and public interest groups at the White House to discuss legal representation for patients, providers and third parties lawfully seeking or offering reproductive health care services. throughout the country.
The department is “working slowly to protect access to reproductive services” in recognition of “the crisis that it is,” Garland said.
“It will take all of us — government lawyers, private pro bono attorneys, bar associations, public interest organizations — to do all we can to protect access to reproductive health care and to provide vigorous legal representation of patients, providers and third parties in need.” ,” he said.
Meanwhile, voters in Kansas will decide Tuesday on a constitutional amendment that will determine the future of abortion rights in their state — the first time anywhere in the US that voters will cast ballots on abortion since the Supreme Court reversed Roe.
Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
Ken Dilanian is the intelligence and national security correspondent for NBC News, based in Washington.
Intel has delayed the release of its 4th Generation Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” processor for a number of times without disclosing its reasoning. Last week the company admitted that it had to change up Sapphire Rapids because of a security bug, but it appears that the problem is bigger than Intel says. According to Igor’s LabSapphire Rapids had about 500 bugs that required the company 12 steps to fix them.
Intel’s fourth Gen Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids’ processor will not only increase core count to up to 60, but will bring in numerous new features, including Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), CXL 1.1 protocol, DDR5 and HBM2E memory support, PCIe Gen 5 interface, and many more. But the host of additional features increase probability of hardware bugs, so Intel had to fix almost 500 of them, Igor’s Lab reports.
So far, Intel has released A0, A1, B0, C0, C1, C2, D0, E0, E2, E3, E4 and E5 steppings of Sapphire Rapids processor to fix nearly 500 bugs. Given that modern processors integrate tens of billions of transistors, it is inevitable that they have a certain number of bugs. They are called errata and are mitigated with microcode or even software updates. But 500 errata seems overwhelming, as does 12 respins considering that a respin costs tens of millions of dollars.
Although it is expensive to build new respins, the more pressing issue is that Intel has to delay release of its next-generation datacenter CPUs. Right now, Intel targets 2023 calendar week 6 to 9 (Feb. 6, 2023 to March 3, 2023) launch window for high-volume Sapphire Rapids processors. Meanwhile, some SPR products may launch on 2022 calendar week 42 and 2022 calendar week 45.
For Intel, the Sapphire Rapids processor and the Eagle Stream platform are crucially important products. Not only they are expected to improve Intel’s competitive positions on the datacenter market, but they will open doors to the company’s next generation products — the codenamed Emerald Rapids processor due in 2023.
Yon April 1993, Mark was excited to be traveling to Glasgow for a comic-book convention. At the time, he was working for a magazine, and had a huge passion for comics. “The magazine was half music, half comic,” he says. “I was going to do signings with all the artists and writers.”
While having a drink with friends at the hotel bar, I spotted a beautiful girl. “There was another convention going on for orchid growers and I assumed she must be with them. There weren’t many women at comic conventions back then,” he says. About halfway through the evening, Mark’s friend Paul told him he was going to look for his sister from him, who was in Glasgow studying French and would be joining them for a drink. When he returned, he brought Ingrid. “She was the girl I’d been looking at earlier in the night,” says Mark.
They began to chat and hit it off straight away. “I really liked him,” says Ingrid. “He had a very deep voice because he’d been drunkenly singing the night before, I think. He was a friend of my brother’s too, so I thought he must be OK.” They sat in the hotel bar and talked until 3am. “I had come out of a long relationship and had been feeling a bit low,” says Mark. “When I met Ingrid, it was like the clouds parted and the sun came through. She was so bright and funny.”
The next day, they met up for another drink. “I was desperate to see Mark again,” says Ingrid. “I’d never really had a proper boyfriend before and it was all exhilarating and exciting.” By the end of the evening, they were holding hands under the table. “It turned into a naughty weekend,” laughs Ingrid. Mark was sharing a room with a friend, who kindly switched rooms to give them privacy. At the end of the convention, they exchanged numbers, but Ingrid admits she wasn’t sure she would see him again. “I lived in Glasgow and he was in London, I just thought it was a bit of fun.”
They stayed in touch and Ingrid agreed to visit London in the summer, after her exams were over. “I was a diligent student and I wanted to get my studies over first,” she says.
She arrived on a hot day and they spent the weekend exploring London. “I remember when I first saw him in the distance. I forgot to lick my fingers to take my chewing gum out and it stuck to my hands,” she says. “We both had a laugh about it, which was a great icebreaker.”
After that, they began a long-distance relationship, before Ingrid moved to London in 1997. “We were living life to the full in the city,” says Mark. “We went to loads of gigs, festivals and drinks events through my work, and all our friends were in creative industries.” Ingrid says they were “always” going out. “Life seemed very free, and it was really easy to find temp jobs.”
They married in Glasgow in 2000, and had their son, Felix, the following year. In 2004, they moved to Leeds, then to Glasgow in 2009. “I wanted to be closer to my mum,” says Ingrid. They have worked together to support their son, who was diagnosed with autism. “Felix is absolutely amazing. When you share something like that as a couple it’s quite empowering but it can be scary too.”
It has been almost 30 years since they met, but Mark says his wife is exactly the same. “She’s incredibly funny and she always surprises me. All the things I found irresistible when I first met her are still there.” Ingrid feels the same way. “He makes me piss myself laughing and we never pull each other. He’s a really good person and it’s been quite a ride.”
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