Gina Rushton

Australia's solicitor-general and four state solicitor-generals have formally intervened in a High Court case brought by a Victorian anti-abortion picketer who was convicted of breaching the state's safe-access zones.

Share On more Share On more Religious picketer Kathy Clubb, a mother to 13 children, was found guilty of one charge of prohibited behaviour within a safe access zone, after she allegedly approached a couple outside East Melbourne Fertility Control...

Abortion is fairly accessible in Victoria, when compared with other jurisdictions in Australia where it is criminalised, geographically hard to attain, or prohibitively expensive. The procedure isn't a crime – as it is in New South Wales or Queensland...

Abetz said he was planning the taxpayer funded trip before he was asked to speak at March for Babies, which is held each October to commemorate the 2008 anniversary of the decriminalisation of abortion in Victoria. "I had a number of unrelated...