 | | NewsMail Afternoon Edition Sat 02 Aug, 2014 | Top Stories | | More Top Stories » |   Surrogacy Australia says it is shocked and outraged that an Australian couple abandoned a baby in Thailand with his surrogate mother after he was found to have Down syndrome and a life-threatening heart condition. Impoverished mother Pattaramon Chanbua has told the ABC she gave birth to twins after agreeing to be a surrogate with a promised payment of about $16,000. The Western Australian couple rejected six-month-old Gammy and only took his healthy sister home with them, and Ms Chanbua says she cannot afford Gammy's medical treatment. Surrogacy Australia hopes the case will be a step toward better regulation, but is worried about a knee-jerk reaction which would lead to an outright ban. More » | | | 
| | More Analysis » |  Most unemployed people don't need long-term solutions, just a short-term safety net. For these people, quarantined payments, work for the dole and training programs could simply hinder their job search, while wasting a large amount of taxpayer money. Determining who gets employment policies based on race is wrong, but so too is applying blanket policies to everyone. More » | | | Just In | | More Just In » | | By James Dunlevie  A new Rio Tinto-funded training centre aimed at supporting the creation of a mining venture operated by Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land has been announced. In a statement, the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Gumatj Corporation Ltd said the new centre, to be established with $2.4 million in funding from the mining giant, would provide training for the local Yolngu people, Such training was an important step towards the creation of a bauxite mining operation to be run by the Gumatj clan at Dhupuma Plateau, it said. More » | | | World | | More World » |  Republicans in the United States House of Representatives have voted to crack down on Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children, who are flooding to the border with Mexico. More » | | | Business | | More Business » | | By finance reporter Simon Frazer  The Australian share market has ended the week with a sharp fall, as investors reacted to significant losses around the world. More » | | | Politics | | More Politics » | | Republicans in the United States House of Representatives have voted to crack down on Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children, who are flooding to the border with Mexico. More » | | | Sport | | More Sport » |  Sally Pearson says head coach Eric Hollingsworth was 'negative to every single person' in Australia's Glasgow team. More » | | | Science and Technology | | More Science and Technology » |  NASA has announced a suite of space-age tools that will be loaded onto its next robotic vehicle bound for Mars in 2020, technology it believes will allow for unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet. More » | | | Environment | | More Environment » | | By Rhiana Whitson  A brown coal-fired power station and briquette factory in Victoria's Latrobe Valley will close next month, two years after receiving a Federal Government bail-out package. More » | | | | You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts. This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email. Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe | Contact Us | | This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | |
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