Aussie made to work overtime for every minute spent breastfeeding baby

October 6th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Two Aussie women, who run a cabaret show involving boobs, have decided to go on a 'boobs mission' to New Zealand. Emma Powell and Bev Killick are well-endowed comedians, who hope to get Kiwi women to love their breasts just as much as they love their own less-than-perfect ones.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - A woman in Indonesia has become a history making mum after she gave birth to the country's biggest ever baby - weighing a whopping 19.2lbs (8.7kgs). The baby, who is still unnamed and is 62 centimetres (24.4 inches) long, was born by caesarean section Monday at a public hospital in North Sumatra province.

September 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The New South Wales Police boss, who forced a breastfeeding mum to work overtime for every minute she spent expressing milk, has been reported to be a woman. The revelation came as Women's Minister Verity Firth told all public service agencies to review practices to ensure they were providing support to breastfeeding mums.

September 5th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Old age hasn't stopped Aussie baby boomers to enjoy a healthy sex life. A new survey has revealed that 40 per cent of men aged 75 to 79 said they were sexually active, and almost 30 per cent of men aged 80 to 84 had had sex in the past 12 months.

September 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - After reports of an alien baby being found in Mexico, a new video has emerged of an alien foetus said to have been dumped outside a military base.he video clipping shows the still and lifeless body of what has been claimed to be a baby alien, reports the Daily Telegraph. The footage appeared on UFO sites around the world and has been the subject of frenzied speculation amongst extra terrestrial commentators for some years.

August 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new poll conducted has shown that up to a third of Australians believe that mothers should not breastfeed their babies in public. The Newspoll survey also showed that another third think a baby should stop breastfeeding within six months, despite 65 per cent of people saying that breastfed babies had a better chance of surviving beyond a year old.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Two thirds of the 'hesitant' Brit mothers have called upon celebrities to breastfeed in public to encourage acceptance in a new survey. The poll conducted by Mother and Baby magazine revealed that many mothers feel too self-conscious to breastfeed over the fears of public stares.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - Two in three UK mothers hesitate to breastfeed their kids whether inside or outside over fears of attracting the opprobrium of people, says a new survey. A large number of women believe UK is "not breastfeeding-friendly".

June 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Guilt-ridden working mothers can chill - a new study claims, while breastfed babies are held more and read to more, they sleep 40 minutes a day less and cry five minutes a day more than bottle-fed babies. The Australian Institute of Family Studies research revealed that full-time working mums spend on average 83 minutes less per day with their baby than stay-at-home mums, but the baby's father and grandparents make up for the lost mother time, reports The Daily Telegraph.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - A mother was told to stop breastfeeding her baby boy by a swimming pool in Nottingham as it breached a leisure centre's strict poolside ban on food and drink. Laura Whotton was left fuming when a member of staff said she could not feed 11-week-old Joshua by the pool at John Carroll Leisure Centre.

May 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - A 2-1/2-year-old boy miraculously survived a terrifying plunge from a third-floor window with minor injuries. According to the neighbours and fire officials, the toddler identified as Tristan, fell from the window at E.

May 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Aussie has become the caretaker of an island paradise in New Zealand - a post, which is being considered as the 'second best job in the world'. The job on Aroha Island, nestled in the heart of New Zealand's beautiful Bay of Islands, is an imitation of 'the best job in the world' on Hamilton Island off north Queensland.

April 26th, 2009 IPOH - Indian origin teacher in Malaysia M. Indira Gandhi spent a sleepless night at the Ipoh police district headquarters, waiting for her baby to be returned to her.

March 19th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Aussie tennis player Mark Philippoussis' ex-girlfriend, model Siobhan Parekh, is feeling happy and positive two months after their break-up. Parekh has relocated to Sydney after ending her 11-month relationship with Philippoussis, who is alleged to have cheated on her, and she has moved into a Bondi apartment.

March 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A 20-year-old Brisbane student will visit as many countries as she can in next twelve days, in a stunt she hopes will win her the best job in the world. Hailey Turner, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) business student, made a short-list of 50 people out of 34,684 applications worldwide for the dream job.