If you are looking for some quality outdoor storage space for your home in Australia, there are quite a few options for you to consider. The traditional timber shed looks quaint but let’s face it, you won’t get more than a few years from a wooden shed. Making such an investment means you want value for money; a sturdy construction that won’t rot and is solid enough to keep out thieves, while also looking like it belongs.
Steel farm sheds
There are Australian-made steel farm sheds that come in a range of sizes; you can have a unit customised and it will be fabricated in the factory and assembled onsite. Start with a Google search to locate the website of a supplier of industrial sheds and browse their catalogu…
Sports Injuries: Common sports-related injuries include anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears, meniscus tears, and patellar tendinitis. These injuries occur due to sudden movements like twisting, turning, or a direct blow to the knee, often during high-impact sports.
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CHANDIGARH, Punjab and Haryana, Aug 10 2006 (IPS) – For campaigners against the practice of selectively aborting unborn girls that has already affected the gender balance in northern India nurse Pooja Rani is something of a heroine.
On Tuesday, Rani led police to a well that she alleged, was used by her employers, Dr. Pritam Singh and his wife Amarjit Kaur, to dispose of scores of unborn girls aborted at their hospital in the Patran town of Punjab s state s Patiala district.
A police raid on the hospital, supported by Patiala district s civil surgeon, Dr. H.S. Mohi, resulted in the recovery of the remains of several female foetuses and other evidence sufficient for the arrest of Singh and his wife.
Rani, who has been working at the hospital for over …
Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE, Nov 24 2008 (IPS) – While pro-choice groups have welcomed the recent decriminalisation of abortion in Victoria Australia s second most-populous state, where around 20,000 abortions are believed to be performed annually anti-abortionists have vowed to continue opposing termination of pregnancies.
I see it as a real victory for common sense, for one, but I also see it as a way in which we ve taken another step towards moving away from the paternalistic framework that was governing termination in Victoria, says Dr. Leslie Cannold, spokesperson for Pro Choice Victoria (PCV), a group of individuals and organisations campaigning for legal access to abortion for all women.
In what was a hotly-contested and controversial decision by the Victo…
Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE, Australia, Apr 3 2009 (IPS) – The revelation that a substantial amount of contaminated water is leaking each day from a tailings dam at a uranium mine, located in a World Heritage Site, has sparked protests from environment activists.
About 100 cubic metres per day of contaminated water is coming from the tailings dam, according to official information given at a recent Senate committee hearing by Alan Hughes, the supervising scientist for the Alligator Rivers region in Australia s Northern Territory, where the Ranger mine is located.
Tailings are the crushed rock that is left over from the mining process. According to the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), these tailings contain some 80 percent of the radioactivity of the origi…
Vani S. Kulkarni teaches Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) Professorial Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
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PHILADELPHIA AND NEW DELHI, Apr 14 2017 (IPS) – Implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act will require a restructuring of health-care services
The Mental Healthcare Bill, 2016, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 27, 2017, has been hailed as a momentous reform. According to the Bill, every person will have the right to access mental health care operated or funded by the government; good quality and affordable health care; equality of treatment and protection fro…
“I love L.A. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful.
Everybody’s plastic – but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
      Andy Warhol
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STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 5 2020 (IPS) – Another episode of the spectacular show that could be called The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Saga of the Trump Presidency, scripted and acted by Trump himself, took place on 1st of June.
As U.S. cities were scenes of demonstrations and looting, President Trump declared himself to be ”the president of law and order” and said he was going to dispatch ”thousands and thousands” of law enforcement pe…
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 2022 (IPS) – The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated the world’s poorer nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, depriving them of any wide-ranging intellectual property rights.
As Max Lawson, Co-Chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance and Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam, said at the conclusion of the WTO’s ministerial meeting last week: “The conduct of rich countries at the WTO has been utterly shameful”.
“The European Union (EU) has blocked anything that resembles a meaningful intellectual property waiver. The UK and Switze…
Building on its innovative model that has already reached +4.6 million children & adolescents in the world’s worst humanitarian crises, Education Cannot Wait calls for urgent, bold investments in education in emergency programmes to avoid irreversible loss for entire generations.
GENEVA / NEW YORK, Oct 5 2021 – On this World Teachers’ Day, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced it has reached more than 4.6 million children and adolescents (48% of whom are girls) with quality education in more than 30 of the worst humanitarian crises around the world.
The Fund’s new Annu…
Parents at Alheri leprosy colony outside Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja have appealed for an end to discrimination, which they say impacts their children.
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Abuja, Nigeria, Feb 3 2022 (IPS) – Seidu Ishaiku lives in the hope that his children will succeed. He and his family live with about 300 other residents in the Alheri leprosy colony outside Nigeria s Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
They (our children) are obviously ou…