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Orr is a former journalist who never lost her interest in ordinary people and the unusual situations they find themselves in. The author is, of course, referring to the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which makes it easier for women to end an unwanted pregnancy and removes the need for women to prove they’re mentally fragile. It also allows abortion to be treated as a health issue, not a criminal act. It’s a topic Orr knows a bit about: her latest novel,
Loop Tracks, tells the story of Charlie, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who finds herself pregnant after her first sexual experience, which may or may not be rape.
Rio gets the government cold shoulder
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It has been a terrible year for Rio Tinto since the mining giant blasted 46,000 years of history to smithereens at Western Australiaâs Juukan Gorge in May. Since then, the company has turfed some members of its executive team deemed responsible for the catastrophe â including then-chief executive
Jean-Sebastien Jacques â and has issued an apology. On that front, Rio is âabsolutely committed to listening, learning and changingâ.
Rioâs chairman,
Simon Thompson, has continued the mop-up job, jetting into Australia in mid-November to meet the Juukan Gorgeâs traditional owners, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people (PKKP), for the first time.
officers there, opened fire, shot the suspect. the suspect was down and being treated, was eventually taken to a hospital nearby, and in the hospital that assailant died. the police officer who was attacked has also died. and two others who were there on scene have died. so the death toll is the assailant plus three others. kevin schoefield is on the line. he said he saw the stabbing from the parliament press gallery. what did you see? i was working in the press gallery this afternoon, as you s see, when we saw the street from westminster bridge. we thought there had been a car crash or something. we looked out the window. there were people running, people shouting. then to my left i saw a man break through, push his way through some security gates on the perimeter of the parliamentary estate.