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DRINKING a glass of wine in your own home could be illegal under extreme new liquor laws that rubber-stamp the use of no-go alcohol zones in NSW.
Stirring up images of 1930s’ prohibition in the US, the Iemma Government is using the total ban on alcohol in some Aboriginal communities as a blueprint.
AN Australian doctor has called for laws preventing the sale of organs to be overturned, saying young healthy people should be paid $50,000 for a kidney in a move that would save lives.
Canberra nephrologist Gavin Carney says permitting the organ trade would save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in care for sick patients who have to wait up to 10 years for a donor kidney.
The practise of selling organs was also dangerously rife overseas, Dr Carney also told Fairfax newspapers today.
“Being forced to travel overseas and illegally buy an organ from someone who desperately needs the money, with no medical controls over the process and nobody checking whether the kidney is a good match, is what I call unethical,” Dr Carney says today.
Selling or buying organs is illegal in Australia, carrying a penalty of six months jail and or a fine of $4400.
Australia has one of the lowest organ donor rates in the world, and more than 1800 people are waiting for a kidney transplant while only 343 were donated last year.
“Weve tried everything to drum up support for organ donation and the rates have not risen in 10 years,” Dr Carney also says.
“People just dont seem to be willing to give their organs away for free … lets pay people some money for a new car or a house deposit and those waiting lists will be halved within about five years.”
TEENAGERS in Queensland are breaking out in deadly sun cancers normally found on much older outdoor workers such as farmers.
Alarmed skin cancer specialists are treating people in their late teens and early 20s displaying pre-cancer and cancerous spots usually associated with 60-year-olds.
The worrying trend is backed by research from the Cancer Council of Australia showing that almost a quarter of the countrys teens are getting burnt on any given weekend.
The Cancer Council said young people were heeding the message that it was dangerous to tan but were still getting sunburnt by accident.