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Australia will not send ground troops to fight the Islamic State.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced Australia is working to provide assistance in the fight against the Islamic State, but not yet planning on sending Australian troops to fight in Iraq.

In a news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibraham al- Jaafari, Bishop said: “We’ve not been asked and we’ve not offered to [send troops to Iraq]. So I do not envisage that being part of our arrangements with Iraq.

“We will only provide assistance at the invitation of and with the consent of the Iraqi government.”

Man charged with murder after assault outside McDonald’s store.

A 27-year-old man will face the Melbourne Magistrates Court today after being charged with the murder of a Darwin man outside a Melbourne McDonalds store early on Saturday morning.

Kyle Zandipour allegedly threw Joshua Hardy, 21, to the ground and kicked him to the head multiple times. Police are calling the assault an unprovoked attack.

Hardy died in Alfred Hospital soon after the attack occurred.

Women still struggling to access private midwives in public hospitals.

The Age has revealed that many women are still unable to employ private midwives to deliver their babies despite a Health Department policy released last November that purported to give women greater birthing choices in Victorian public hospitals.

Health Department policy indicated that hospitals should establish arrangements with private midwives to act as primary carers during birth, just as they currently do with private obstetricians.

However, major hospitals such as the Royal Women’s or Mercy are yet to enter into any agreements with private midwives.

This has led to more women choosing to have home births with a private midwife present or to privately pay midwives to attend their hospital births, without access to health rebates.

Finance Minister calls Shorten an ‘economic girly man’

Federal Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann, yesterday referred to Opposition leader Bill Shorten as a ‘girly man’ over his decision to block billions of dollars of cuts and other savings measures in the Coalition’s controversial first budget.

The SMH  has reported that Mr Cormann said to Sky News, “the problem that the Labor Party has today is that Bill Shorten is an economic girly man”.

The phrase was used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the US on a number of occasions, but most notoriously at the 2004 Republican National Convention when he blasted pessimists on the US economy as girly men.

Mr Shorten hit back saying, “It’s obvious why Abbott government ministers are more interested in sexist name-calling than defending their unfair budget…If the government found room in their cabinet for more than one woman, perhaps this budget wouldn’t be such an unmitigated disaster.”

Greens spokesperson, Larissa Waters said, “Australian women will be appalled that he has chosen to use gender as a derogatory attack.”

“The 1950s called and they want their government back,” the Senator said.

Ebola labelled ‘disaster of generation’.

Oxfam has released a statement claiming Ebola is likely to be the “definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation”.

The deadly virus has so far killed 4,500 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Isolated cases have also appeared in some Western nations.

Chief Executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring, has warned: “We cannot allow Ebola to immobilise us in fear, but…countries that have failed to commit troops, doctors and enough funding are in danger of costing lives.”

High tech stalking a new risk in for women.

A Senate Inquiry into domestic violence has been told that smart phones are increasingly being used to stalk women. The phones are not only used for harassing calls and texts, but they are also a mechanism for tracking women’s movements through Facebook, apps and GPS.

The Age reports that the Senate Inquiry was told by Julie Oberin, chair of the Women’s Services Network, that perpetrators were secretly downloading spyware onto their partner’s phones, allowing them to read emails and texts, as well as monitoring calls and internet search history. There were also reports of men gifting smart phones with spyware to children and hacking victim’s smart tvs.

Smartphone technology also provides important opportunities for women to install apps to message friends or emergency services if they are in trouble, and allow them to collect evidence from perpetrators, including taking screen shots of abusive texts.

The Age has provided tips on smartphone security for women, which you can find here.

The smell of bacon gives bridal store the blues.

A café in Brisbane has been forced to remove bacon from their menu after complaints from a bridal shop that the smell of sizzling bacon was permeating their upstairs store.

Gramercy Coffee has received a letter from Wintergarden centre management requesting the menu change as a result of the complaint from Winnie Bridal.

The bridal store sells couture dresses that cost between $3,000 and $10,000.

The café is now reduced to serving ham on its breakfast bagels (which, let’s face it, is not the same thing).

Parents call for removal of “devil child”.

The Herald Sun reports that some parents in Queensland are demanding the removal of a child from a small Catholic school because they fear the behaviour of a grade two boy referred to as “son of Satan” and “devil chid”.

According to reports, the boy’s violent outbursts – including property damage and threats to staff – have been so extreme that students have adopted an evacuation strategy and wait in another room.

Parents have allegedly taken their children from the school because they are concerned about the impact on their children’s education.