The Washington Post
SYDNEY — One by one, the men and women recounted lives ruined, relationships severed, bank accounts emptied. A young father stared at the ceiling in shame as he described another relapse. A burly man’s voice broke as he recalled stealing from his sons’ piggy bank to fuel his habit. A woman on Zoom clutched her cat to her chest as she described hitting “rock bottom.”
What united them at this meeting in the drab church building in a working-class suburb of Sydney?
It was the pokies
Full article https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/26/australia-gambling-addiction/
ABC - Birth Story
Mums, dads, midwives and more — we heard from nearly 4,000 people in the 12 months since we began the ABC’s quest to explore childbirth (and beyond) in Australia.
All of the detailed submissions were read by at least one ABC journalist. Just over half of them discussed issues around the lack of appropriate and thorough birth education.What’s driving Australia's rising induction rate?
Rates of labour induction have increased substantially. Is it making childbirth safer — or have the scales tipped too far?
Many people felt they went into the birthing experience without sufficient knowledge of what to expect, or clarity about the impact of decisions.
Almost half of the submissions we received touched on interventions, such as labour induction, forceps delivery or caesarean birth.
Birth trauma was also a common theme, with just over 40 per cent of submissions mentioning injuries or trauma as a result of the birthing experience.
And 40 per cent of submissions also mentioned the lack of postpartum care in Australia, including support for breastfeeding, mental health, and maternal medical issues.
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The land will be partly cleared in 2019 to make way for a new university.Bhus is one part of Institute for (X). A unique hub for urban innovation in Aarhus, Denmark. Part squat in a railway waste-land, part urban research, part self-build wooden structures, part urban gardening, part startups, part post-capitalist society model. Bhus is a community of artists, musicians, architects and innovators taking advantage of the city’s disused railway space. Bhus is a delicate balance of the doers and the takers of society working, living and aiming to thrive.
The land will be partly cleared in 2019 to make way for a new university.
