Healthcare

NSW Greens MLC Amanda Cohn has introduced a bill to significantly expand access to abortion services across the state. Pip Hinman reports. 

Socialist Alliance launched its campaign for the seat of Rankin with its key focus for the government to break ties with the genocidal Israeli state, build public housing and climate action. Susan Price reports.

Members of the Busselton LGBTIQ community, families and allies marched to Western Australian Liberal leader Libby Mettam’s office to demand that she listen to trans youth and their families. Report from Busselton Pride Alliance

PM Anthony Albanese’s mealy-mouthed dodging of Trump’s declaration that the US would “own” and “level” Gaza was his way of signalling that Australia will tag along, albeit with a little bit of hand-wringing, argues Sam Wainwright

 

The results of the byelections in the Victorian electorates of Werribee and Prahran suggest disillusion with the major parties is growing. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

Fifty years after Dying with Dignity NSW formed, Suzanne James spoke with Penny Hackett, its president, on the anniversary of voluntary assisted dying in NSW.

Protest and David Seymour inset

This year’s Waitangi Day celebrations in Aotearoa/New Zealand were held during a period of strained race relations between Māori and the Crown, reports Zara Lomas.

Thousands joined a national day of protest to protect trans youth, following the Queensland government’s decision to ban gender-affirming healthcare for under 18-year-olds. Isaac Nellist reports.

Protect trans kids: snap rally outside health minister Tim Nicholls' office, January 29

Communities and health providers are pushing back against the Queensland Liberal National Party government’s decision to stop providing puberty blockers and hormone therapies to young transgender people. Alex Bainbridge reports.

The Chris Minns government has known for at least 16 months about the 140 vacancies in the psychiatry workforce, but rather than rectify this it has gone on the offensive against public health professionals. Jim McIlroy reports.

Creative transport in Havana Cuba

Many fear that Donald Trump will reverse Joe Biden’s decision to remove Cuba from the United States’ list of “state sponsors of terrorism”, writes Tamara Pearson.

Just days before the Republicans, headed by Donald Trump, take charge in the US, pro-Palestine protests across Australia continued to demand that Labor cut ties with Israel. Pip Hinman, Sarah Hathway and Adam Bremner report.