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1. Latest on the impending executions of the Bali Nine.

Indonesian newspaper The Jakarta Globe has called for the executions of Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to be delayed until after the Constitutional Court considers a last-ditch legal challenge to their clemency rejection on May 12.

There was confusion last night over whether the two men had been granted a stay of execution after it was revealed on the ABC’s Q&A the court had agreed to consider the challenge. However, the Attorney General’s office later said the executions would take place this week.

Meanwhile, this morning on The Today Show, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she will continue to plead throughout the day for clemency for the men. It is still believed they will be shot by firing squad just after midnight tonight.

In other developments:

• Yesterday, Andrew Chan married his fiancee, Feby Herewila, in prison. The ceremony was attended by a small group of family and friends. For more read this post here.
• The families of Bali nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were delayed yesterday by three and a half hours before they were allowed to visit the duo after Indonesian officials changed the system and required them to fill out new paperwork.
• Their families today will spend what is thought to be their last day with the two.  The families stay on the island with the men from 9am until about 2pm when they will be asked to say goodbye.
• The Australian government is considering recalling the ambassador if the executions go ahead.
• The Indonesian Attorney General is expected to make an announcement about the timing of the execution this morning.
• Hundreds of people have gathered for candlelight vigils for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan around the country. In Sydney, an Amnesty International vigil saw the words Keep Hope Alive light up the harbour.

2. Nepal government appeals for help.

The Government of Nepal has appealed for help after the nation was hit by a devastating earthquake on Saturday. The death toll from the quake has now risen to 4,138 with thousands more injured.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said authorities were struggling with their limited capacity to respond to the crisis.

“We are expecting more foreign help now and now need to work on cremating people, on sanitation, on clean drinking water,” he said.

Lila Mani Poudyal, the Nepali government’s chief secretary told journalists they needed the international community to send every form of aid, starting with shelter.

“We are appealing for tents, dry goods, blankets, mattresses, and 80 different medicines that we desperately need now.”

“We don’t have the helicopters that we need or the expertise to rescue the people trapped.”

An Australian woman who died in the quake, has been named as Melbourne mother-of-two Renu Fotedar. ABC reports that Ms Fotedar had recently moved to Switzerland with her family where she ran a business focusing on behavioural sciences and holistic healing.

There are still dozens of Australians missing in the region.

If you would like to donate to the rebuilding efforts, a fund has been started at Global Giving. You can find the relief fund here.

You can also donate to CARE Emergency to supply medical resources here or to Mercy Corps, who will be helping the survivors here.

3. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton indicates boy with autism will be allowed to stay in Australia.

By Dan Conifer

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton looks set to allow a 10-year-old boy with autism to remain in Australia.

Tyrone Sevilla’s condition meant his mother Maria’s skilled worker visa was rejected.

A 4,000-page petition of more than 122,000 signatures was handed to Mr Dutton’s Brisbane office on Monday.

The Minister has the power to overturn their deportation to the Philippines.

“I need to have a look at the particular facts in relation to this case,” Mr Dutton told RN Drive.

“But on the details, as they are made known to me at the moment, I think this is a case where we would be able to help the family.

“I hope that we can provide a good outcome for this family that I think they deserve.”

Ms Sevilla came to Australia eight years ago to study nursing and now works at Townsville Hospital.

In her case, the Migration Review Tribunal cited the “significant cost to the Australian community” of health care for Tyrone.

She has asked Mr Dutton to consider her case, and the department is preparing a report for his consideration.

Mr Dutton said he reviews matters on a case-by-case basis.

“In many of these cases we want to try and provide support to families that are in a very difficult situation. We have to weigh up all of the circumstances and particulars of the relevant case,” he said.

“I think that is a reason we have ministerial discretion so that we can apply a level of common sense.

“There needs to be support wherever we can provide it, but a realisation that we can’t provide assistance to every child with a medical condition that would seek to make that application.”

This story was originally published on ABC.

4. UN report: women get paid less.

A major report from United Nations Women released in seven cities globally has shown that on average, women are paid 24 per cent less than men throughout the world. The gap for women with children is even wider.

Women in South Asia experience the biggest pay gap, with an average of 33 per cent, while women in the Middle East and North Africa experience the smallest, with an average of 14 per cent.

In France and Sweden, over their lifetime, women can expect to earn 31 percent less than men; in Germany, 49 percent less than men; and in Turkey, an average woman can expect to earn 75 percent less than an average man over her lifetime. In Australia the pay gap widened between 2000 and 2010.

The report, Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, says “women are clustered into a limited set of under-valued occupations.”

Eighty-three percent of domestic workers worldwide are women and almost half of them are not entitled to the minimum wage.

The reports shows that in the EU 75 percent of women in management and higher professional positions and 61 percent of women in service sector occupations have experienced some form of sexual harassment in the workplace in their lifetime.

It also examines economic leadership positions, from trade unions to corporate boards and finds that women are vastly under represented.

“Women’s membership in trade unions is growing in some countries, but they rarely reach top leadership positions,” said the report.

UN Women Australia executive director Julie McKay told Fairfax Media the report highlighted that no country has fully achieved women’s empowerment.

“How long is it going to be before we start taking women’s economic security more seriously?” She asked.

5.  Tanya Plibersek’s push to force Labor MPs to support same-sex marriage vote triggers party backlash.

Louise Yaxley

The deputy leader Tanya Plibersek wants the ALP National Conference in July to decide that MPs should no longer be given a conscience vote on gay marriage.

Her move has triggered a backlash in the party, with some arguing she has set back the cause of marriage equality by up to 10 years.

Ms Plibersek argues for a binding vote on marriage equality saying it is about ending discrimination. She said conscience votes should be limited to issues like abortion and euthanasia.

“Conscience votes in the Labor party are reserved for issues of life or death … I don’t think this is an issue in that category,” Ms Plibersek told the ABC’s Q&A program.

“I think this is an issue of legal discrimination against once group in our community. Do we have a conscience vote about whether we allow racism in our community?

“Do we have a conscience vote on whether we allow sexism or ageism, we don’t.”

The party narrowly voted at its last conference to let MPs to have a conscience vote on marriage equality, but this time the support for a binding vote instead appears to have grown, particularly with the left gaining numbers in Queensland.

But if the push succeeds, it could create a mess for the party with some considering whether they would abstain or more seriously, cross the floor, which would risk expulsion under party rules.

Labor frontbencher Gai Brodtmann supports same-sex marriage but does not think MPs should be forced to either vote for it or to break the rules.

“I support marriage equality but I also support a conscience vote. I like to think that we are a tolerant party that we can tolerate, accommodate a broad range of views. We’re a broad church,” Ms Brodtmann said.

Sources say some MPs with strong religious views would cross the floor and then either face expulsion — or resign from Labor sit as independents — causing a split.

Labor frontbencher Stephen Jones argued there is not a need for a conscience vote, but he points out churches would not be forced to conduct same-sex marriages.

“I don’t think removing discrimination should be an issue of conscience. I think any proposition that we vote on should carefully deal with the issue of religious freedom,” Mr Jones said.

“I don’t think churches should be forced to marry a couple against their precepts once that issue is dealt with. I think we should have a uniform position on marriage equality and I think it should be a position which is binding on all federal MPs.”

There is anger and bewilderment inside Labor that there is a renewed push for a binding vote on the issue when the ALP has been criticising the Prime Minister for refusing to give the Coalition a conscience vote.

Ms Plibersek said she does not accept Labor’s stand affects whether the Coalition agrees to give its MPs a free vote.

“It’s actually been Labor policy since 2011 since our national conference to have a conscience vote. There’s been no movement from the Liberal Party in that whole time to move away from their position which is Tony Abbott’s position which is no to marriage equality.”

This artcle was originally published on ABC. 

 6. 100,000 families may lose benefits with proposed earn or learn proposed “activity test”.

The May Budget is expected to contain an “activity test” which will apply to childcare subsidies forcing parents on welfare to show they are working or studying before they get benefits.

ABC News reports that the proposal could see up to 100,000 low income families lose benefits.

Early Childhood Australia (ECA) estimates that families earning an income of less than $55,000 may be worse off especially those who use the current two days a week subsidy to look for work.

ECA chief executive officer Samantha Page said single mothers trying to return to the workforce have the greatest need for the subsidy.

“The reality of getting work is putting your name down on casual rosters all over town and taking whatever you can get,” Ms Page said.

“And really you need to be able to say you’ve got some child care on at least two days a week, that the child is settled and you are able to take shifts on those days.”

Social Services Minister Scott Morrison told the ABC “We are very mindful that there are circumstances in particular families where people would be prevented from doing those things and in those circumstances we want to ensure their children can receive the sort of early learning support that can be provided.”

7. Nanny boost for shift workers.

The Federal budget will announce a $250 million trial program that will allow subsidised nannies for 10,000 low to middle income-earning families.

Social Services Minister Scott Morrison will today announce the program which will target shift workers and regional and rural families with a combined annual income of up to $250,000.

Mr Morrison told News Limited: “nannies are not meant to replace mainstream childcare services but we want families to be able to choose the care type that suits them best, including using nannies in addition to other childcare.

“Key workers such as nurses, police, ambulance and firefighters as well as shift workers are too often cut off from government support for their families to access childcare because of the nature and hours of their work.”

8.  Woman faces court over newborn baby death.

A woman has appeared in court after it is alleged she gave birth at work and then put her newborn baby in a plastic bag and placed him in a desk drawer.

Kimberley Pappas from the US city of Detroit worked for a freight-moving company. It is alleged she used the office bathroom to give birth to her baby. Co-workers called police after finding a large amount of blood in the bathroom.

The woman is said to have hidden her pregnancy from her colleagues and family. The Detroit Free Press reports that the baby was in the bag for 15 minutes to half an hour before he was discovered.

Paramedics tried to revive him but he died.

Pappas told police it was a miscarriage but the autopsy showed homicide by suffocation. She faces charges of felony murder, premeditated murder and first-degree child abuse.

She was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation, returning to court at on June 8.

9. Girls thrive in single sex schools.

The head of one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the world has claimed that single sex education is better for teenage girls as it takes the pressure off them to try and impress boys in a ‘sexualised world’.

The head of the UK’s Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire, Rhiannon Wilkinson has said that all girls schools allow female students to “remain girls for longer”.

She told The Telegraph: “My wide educational experience in both mixed and girls’ schools has shown me clearly that girls are best served educationally in their teenage years in a boy-free work environment.

“Most psychological studies suggest that girls and boys develop at different rates and that girls are far in advance of boys through the teenage years: it is in a girl’s best interests to be educated separately, at least until boys catch up with her.”

Ms Wilkinson, who also taught at an independent co-educational school said that having boys in the school environment can mean girls grow up quicker in a “sexualised world”.

“Girls in single sex schools thrive, they remain girls for longer, these places provide a bit of protection, a bit of relief from a highly sexualised world. Boarding schools are wonderful havens and oasis where girls can be happy and achieve what they need academically,” she said.

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