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 1. Daughter of gay dad “not welcome” at private school.

The daughter of a gay man has been told by her elite private school that she could only stay at the school if she did not speak of her father’s sexuality.

WA Today reports that the father, Brendan claims the principal of The Foundation Christian told him and his daughter “they don’t promote ‘gay’ at the school.”

“[My daughter] got talking about Tony Abbott and gay marriage and mentioned that her dad is with [my partner] and she was shut down by her teacher and then the teacher had to explain to the class what ‘gay’ is,” Brendan told WA Today.

“We were asked to go into a meeting that we thought would be about her education and how she was going in class to be told that [my daughter] had mentioned I’m gay,” he said.

“I was told that they don’t promote ‘gay’ at the school and [my daughter] was unable to talk about my life between [my partner] and me and general stuff about what a kid talks about with her parents.

He said to me that ‘if we knew you were gay at the interview you would never have got in this school’.”

   The Principal confirmed his views to The Mandurah Mail. ” When the father submitted his application for enrolment, he did so with his ex-wife as part of the process,” he said in a statement. “Knowing that the college would not endorse an application from same-sex parents, I find there is not openness from the parent’s point of view.”

The parent signed the conditions of entry agreement with the college stating (amongst other items) ‘We support the principle of Christian education for our child’. “The [school] board are firm in their view that families have a mother and father who raise children jointly.The board also has a strong view that families with same-sex parents do not support a Christian world view. Some parents at this college are concerned to hear that a child in year one is talking about their experiences of living with two dads, in place of a mother and father.”

“I mentioned to the parent that if his daughter was to continue this topic of discussion with her peers, then it would be in both his and his daughter’s interests to move to a school that would support his world view.”

The father has decided to withdraw his daughter from the school and send her elsewhere, a decision he says she was devastated by.

“Why does my daughter have to go through this and lose her best friends due to the person I am? I carry a lot of guilt and I hate that my daughter has to deal with her dad not being accepted.” he told The Mandurah Mail.

The school receives millions of dollars every year in taxpayer funding. 

2. Newborn mix-up in private hospital.

A mother who gave birth in Sydney’s North Shore Private Hospital has been given the wrong newborn reports Yahoo Seven.

The woman was in the maternity unit at the private hospital when a midwife brought her the wrong baby.

Reports suggested that the woman breastfed the infant before the mix-up was realised, but the hospital has denied that.

North Shore Private gave a statement saying that the situation was quickly resolved in accordance with its policies and procedures.”

3. Man accused of killing Karlie Pearce Stevenson was in a relationship with key suspect in Karlie Pearce-Stevenson’s identity fraud.

The man accused of killing Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, was in a relationship with a woman who police are investigating over an allegation she took over Ms Pearce-Stevenson’s identity after she was killed.

Fairfax Media reports that at one stage Ms Pearce-Stevenson and Holdom, were romantically involved.

It is believed that Holdom was in a relationship with a woman, named as Hazel Passmore, who police are investigating over the theft of Ms Pearce-Stevenson’s identity after her alleged murder in December 2008.

Police are investigating whether she is the woman who attended a credit union in June 2010 and convinced staff she was Ms Pearce-Stevenson.

Passmore was injured in 2008 after a car crash, where Holdom was driving left two of Passmore’s children dead and her in a wheelchair.

News Limited reports that it was while Passmore was recovering in hospital, Holdom became involved with Ms Pearce-Stevenson.

In a chilling twist photos on Passmore’s Facebook page show Khandalise dated from August 2008.

For more read this post here.

4. Coroner breaks down while reading findings.

A Sydney Coroner has been brought to tears while reading her findings into the case of the elderly woman left dead in her bed for months by her daughter.

The badly decomposing body of 83-year old Noreen Peacock was found in October 2013 by real-estate agents conducting an inspection of home she had shared with her daughter, Melissa Peacock.

Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund said “This was an extraordinarily sad case.”

“Noreen Peacock died being cared for by the person who no doubt loved her the most, her youngest daughter.”

She found that Melissa Peacock had suffered depression and alcoholism rendering her unable to cope with her mother’s care, she failed to take her mother to a doctor or seek any other form of assistance, leaving her in the house for nine hours a day, six days a week, while Melissa went to work.

One doctor said he believed hypothermia was the most likely cause of death because she had been lying naked in bed during the coldest months of the year without the heater on.

She was just 37 kilograms when she died.

“It was, in my view, totally unacceptable that Mrs Peacock was deprived of medical attention from November 2010.

“It is also unacceptable that Mrs Peacock was being left alone, locked in a two-storey house for up to nine hours a day, six days a week for many months while Melissa went to work.

“The risks involved in leaving an elderly person alone for this length of time are obvious.” The coroner said.

She said that part of the blame must be shouldered by Melissa’s two sisters who “simply did not want to know.”

“At some point, Melissa became unable to cope with the responsibility of being the sole carer and provider of an elderly, frail mother who was suffering from the advanced stages of dementia.

“Melissa did not reach out for help. Her sisters did not extend assistance despite awareness of their mother’s deteriorating condition.

“This, in my view, further isolated Melissa from the outside world. Melissa was left to flounder and the consequences were extreme.”

5. Father accused of killing daughter appears in court.

A 23-year old father, accused of killing his seven-month old daughter has appeared in court.

Paul Cosgrove, 23, from Ellenbrook in WA appeared at Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court via video link from Casuarina Prison.

The mother of seven-month old Lily had previously told media that she had put Lily to bed the night of September 14 and did not check on her again thinking she was sleeping soundly.

WA Today reports that when she returned home on Monday night, she found Lily unconscious and called an ambulance.

She died later that night.

Police originally charged Paul Cosgrave with grievous bodily harm, before upgrading it to “unlawfully killing another under such circumstances as not to constitute murder”.

Mr Cosgrove was remanded in custody.

6. China ends one-child policy.

Couples will now be allowed to have two children reports Xinhua news agency.

The controversial policy was introduced nationally in 1979, to slow the population growth rate. It is estimated to have prevented about 400 million births.

Couples who violated the one-child policy faced a variety of punishments, from fines and the loss of employment to forced abortions.

For more read this post here.

7. Health care professionals demand immediate release of 202 children in immigration detention centres in Australia and on Nauru.

Health care professionals will today hold a coordinated day of national action demanding the immediate release of 202 children in immigration detention centres in Australia and on Nauru

The #KidsOut Day of Solidarity comes in the midst of National Children’s Week – the annual celebration of Australia’s signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Health care professionals from Westmead, Randwick, Liverpool, Adelaide and Darwin Hospitals will standing in solidarity with their Melbourne and Brisbane colleagues under the banner of #DetentionHarmsChildren.

Doctors have said that they would not rule our refusing to release a child in danger of being returned to detention. Doctors and staff are calling on Mr Turnbull to act immediately.

The action follows that taken by Royal Children’s Hospital earlier this month.

8. Lesbian couple arrested for kissing in public.

A lesbian couple on holiday in Hawaii have been arrested after kissing in a supermarket.

The New York Post reports that Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero were holding hands and at one point “hugged and kissed” while walking through the supermarket.

A police office warned them to “take it somewhere else,” saying “you girls don’t know how to act. You don’t know the difference between a motel and a grocery store.’”

A lawsuit states that a scuffle broke out and Wilson said she was “punched in the face” by the officer.

Both women were charged with felony assault on an officer and spent three days in jail. The two women were forced to stay in Hawaii and The New York Post reports at one stage they had to sleep in a homeless shelter.

The incident is being investigated.

9. You probably already have herpes.

A report from the World Health Organization has shown that two-thirds of the world’s population under 50 have the highly infectious herpes virus that causes cold sores around the mouth.

In its first estimate of global prevalence of the disease WHO said that more than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 suffer from the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), usually after catching it in childhood.

That is in addition to 417 million people in the 17-49 age range who have the other form of the disease, HSV-2, which causes genital herpes.

In rich countries, the cases of genital rather than oral herpes are increasing because improved hygiene in rich countries is lowering HSV-1 infection rates in childhood, leaving young people more at risk of catching it via oral sex when they become sexually active.

Sami Gottlieb, a WHO medical officer, told Reuters: “We really need to accelerate the development of vaccines against herpes simplex virus, and if a vaccine designed to prevent HSV-2 infection also prevented HSV-1, it would have far reaching benefits.”

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