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THE Turnbull Government will spend $ 68.6 million on a new centre for countering child exploitation in the May budget, which will boost police and border force numbers to stamp out trafficking and live- streamed material.
Law enforcement officials anticipate the centre will identify and remove from harm more than 200 child victims each year.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said that every nine minutes a child somewhere in the world appears on a web page being sexually exploited while young girls are still sold off into forced marriages. AUSTRALIA’S peak GP group has defended a secret list that recommends specialists charge more than the Medicare fee, saying successive governments and insurers “must take their share of the blame”.
The Australian Medical Association’s List of Services and Fees is provided to members at a cost and is also available to others who purchase the book every year, president Michael Gannon said yesterday. Dr Gannon said successive governments and insurers must “take their share of the blame” after failing to index their schedules according to inflation. ATHLETES from all over the world are settling into the home away from home ahead of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
Some 909 sports stars from countries and territories as diverse as Botswana, Wales, the Isle of Man and Ghana began arriving at the Games village yesterday. Others to begin settling in at the village included athletes from powerhouse nations Australia, Scotland and England.
Scottish squash player Alison Thomson, preparing for her first Commonwealth Games, praised the village welcome.
“Very, very impressed,” Thomson said. BABIES induced or delivered by caesarean section face long- term health problems, explosive findings of a world- first study have revealed.
Australians were among a team of international researchers to discover the adverse impacts of medical interference in the birthing process.
The study cohort included 491,590 lowrisk pregnant women from Australia. Researchers say that tampering with the natural labour process may interrupt the normal stress of being born: too much stress and too little stress both can have negative impacts.
The study, published today in the journal Birth, shows children born by emergency caesarean section had the highest rates of metabolic disorders in later years. Instrumental births following induction or augmentation had the highest risk of jaundice and feeding problems.
New Sunshine Coast mum Adelle Rutch had hoped for a birth free from intervention.
“I understand that sometimes it is necessary but my birth plan showed I wanted a natural birth without pain relief. Thanks to the help of my private midwife it went according to plan,” the 27- year- old said.