From ABC Online:Fertility clinics in South Australia say they are struggling to keep up with an increasing demand for donor sperm.They said rising infertility rates along with a greater number of same-sex couples and single women requesting treatments have contributed
Water Down Under: A Report from Australia by Barb Cosens: Post 1
[My colleague here at the University of Idaho College of Law, Barbara Cosens, is currently visiting in Australia and doing some really interesting water law work there. She plans to occasionally blog about the experience. She has agreed to…
Lorana Bartels on Infant Abandonment, Neonaticide and Infanticide
LoranaBartels (Universityof Canberra – School of Law and Justice) has posted Safe HavenLaws, Baby Hatches and Anonymous Hospital Birth: Examining Infant Abandonment,Neonaticide and Infanticide in Australia on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Thisarticle considers international responses to infant…
Carruthers & Skead on the Torrens System
By propertyprof
Penny Carruthers (Wester Australia) and Natalie Skead (Western Australia) have posted 150 Years On: The Torrens Compensation Provisions in the ‘Last Resort’ Jurisdictions (Australian Property Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:One hundred and fifty years ago, with the introduction…
Appointing an Officeholder as Executor – Avoiding Shifting Executorships
By Paul Evans & Bill d'Apice
Home birth + Free Choice..
I was interested (and a little horrified) to read the recent coverage of the South Australian Coroner’s findings concerning 3 foetal deaths in SA, associated with home birth in ‘non-low-risk pregnancies’ (1 at least involving a breech presentation). See for…
Another Informed Consent Case fails at trial
Maintaining the sobering record of Plaintiff claims based on informed consent, is a recent South Australian case, Coombes v Katsaros [2011] SADC 93.
The claim concerned alleged complex regional pain syndrome (“CRPS”) said to have arisen following hand surgery.
The…
Deli Roast Beef Recalled In South Australia But Precise Cause Remains A Mystery
There is a bit of a mystery down-under. South Australia (SA) Health cannot find any listeria in other products at either Kyana Farms at Wingfield nor Conroy’s Smallgoods at Bowden.
Bulk meat that ended up in 100 gram pre-packaged IGA…
Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis
The Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis is afull-fee paying 1 to 1.5 year (part time over 2 or 3 semesters) graduatelevel course which is available flexibly via external distance and internalmode through the Centre for Development Studies,…
