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The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge to President Trump s bid to exclude illegal immigrants from the population baseline for awarding House seats, saying the challenge was premature.
In an unsigned opinion, the High Court said a final decision should be put off given ongoing uncertainty over the scope and effect of Trump s policy. A July memorandum from the president ordered commerce secretary Wilbur Ross to exclude illegal immigrants from the reapportionment baseline, which is derived from the decennial census. Blue states and civil-rights groups challenged the order on several grounds, but the Court said there was not enough information to evaluate any of them.
As the Australia-China relationship deteriorates, a $200m PNG fishery deal raises eyebrows
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Amid the din and racket of politics at the end of what has been, by any measure, an extraordinary year, the continuing and growing deterioration in our trade relationship with China has lost its novelty value.
More tariffs on Australian wines this week? More restrictions on meat and timber? The gradual but relentless closing down of trading opportunities with China has reached that stage in the news cycle where you struggle to remember which sanctions are old and which ones are new and, besides, there isn t much expectation that anything is going to emerge to break the stalemate any time soon.
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Amid the din and racket of politics at the end of what has been, by any measure, an extraordinary year, the continuing and growing deterioration in our trade relationship with China has lost its novelty value.
The gradual but relentless closing down of trading opportunities with China has reached that stage in the news cycle where you struggle to remember which sanctions are old and which ones are new and, besides, there isnât much expectation that anything is going to emerge to break the stalemate any time soon.
Steering a course through the Australia-China relationship is becoming increasingly difficult for Scott Morrison.Â
For the 59-year-old, a blood test is a better option. If you can just have a blood test, like how amazing. Just go to the doctors and have a blood test, she said.
The Australian screening technology is called ColoSTAT and is currently in the late stages of clinical trials. It involves a blood test and an algorithm to work out how likely it is to be positive, Doctor Anthony McGirr, the Principal Investigator at the Northern Beaches Clinical Research Centre, said.
Each year, more than 5000 Australians die from bowel cancer.
It is hoped this new and less invasive screening tool will be able to identify the disease earlier to reduce that number.