The Reserve Bank of Australia maintained its official interest rate at 4.35% due to a slowing economy and rising unemployment. This decision offers little relief to mortgage holders facing increased costs from previous rate hikes. Higher fuel prices are contributing to inflation.
A birthkeeper testified at an inquest that her role was not to make a home birth safer, despite being paid $6,000 for support. The woman she assisted died from a postpartum hemorrhage after a freebirth.
A coronial inquest heard a doula, Emily Lal, delayed calling an ambulance for a freebirthing influencer, Stacey Warnecke, who died of postpartum haemorrhage. Lal testified she asked Warnecke three times over five minutes if she wanted an ambulance, as the deceased was gasping and struggling to breathe.
A doula, Emily Lal, is under scrutiny in a coronial inquest for delaying an ambulance call for a freebirthing influencer, Stacey Warnecke, who died of postpartum hemorrhage. Lal insisted on Warnecke's autonomy, only calling for help when the mother's condition critically worsened.
