Luke Buckmaster provides a brief overview of RU486 and its use in medical abortion, an explanation of its current legislative status in Australia, and a brief analysis of the current debate about overturning legislative restrictions on RU486 and similar abortion drugs in Australia introduced at the instigation of Senator Brian Harradine in 1996.

This report presents data on all assisted reproductive technology treatments that took place in 2002 and their resulting pregnancies and births. The Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database (ANZARD) permits the linkage of treatment cycles to pregnancies and births and, thus, allows the description of a single group: the treatment of cycles from a...

In 2001, FPA Health, whose primary goal is to improve access to a range of reproductive and sexual health services for regional, rural and remote areas in New South Wales, conducted a reproductive and sexual health needs assessment of the Macquarie area. Community consultations were conducted with students, adolescent mothers, men, middle aged women in...

This paper by Lois Bryson and Alison Mackinnon provides a summary of key points to emerge from the research papers presented at the workshop 'Population, gender and reproductive choice: the motherhood questions', held in Adelaide in February 2000.