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Leading modeller explains why Victorians should keep wearing masks

Leading modeller explains why Victorians should keep wearing masks

Burnet Institute deputy director Margaret Hellard is urging the public not to give up on trying to limit transmission of COVID-19, arguing many deaths could be avoided by delaying some infections this year.

  • by Aisha Dow

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Ambulance waits the longest on record as life-threatening calls hit 10-year high

Ambulance waits the longest on record as life-threatening calls hit 10-year high

Triple-zero calls soared to more than 375,000 in the first quarter of this year, with a record 9300 responses to the most life-threatening cases.

  • by Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
Mental health patients handcuffed or locked away at alarming rates
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Mental health patients handcuffed or locked away at alarming rates

Mentally ill Victorians had their wrists and ankles cuffed or were locked inside rooms thousands of times last year in the state’s hospitals, which restrain unwell people at a higher rate than the national average.

  • by Timna Jacks
Worse than Wild West: cosmetic cowboys must be reined in
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Worse than Wild West: cosmetic cowboys must be reined in

Regulatory gaps concerning cosmetic surgery in Australia exposes the public to significant undisclosed risks by untrained or inadequately trained practitioners.

  • by Mark Ashton
Surgeons, priests and media friends: Inside the fight to publish cosmetic investigation

Surgeons, priests and media friends: Inside the fight to publish cosmetic investigation

As soon as the founder of the country’s biggest provider of cosmetic procedures realised his lucrative business was under media scrutiny, he pulled out all the stops.

  • by Adele Ferguson and Joel Tozer
‘We had a sixth person in our house’: Skeletons in the closet haunt doctors

‘We had a sixth person in our house’: Skeletons in the closet haunt doctors

Human bones are stored in boxes in thousands of people’s homes, with no sign of whom they belonged to or when and where they were seized.

  • by Timna Jacks
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‘Complete mayhem’ as healthcare system buckles under pressure

‘Complete mayhem’ as healthcare system buckles under pressure

With hospitals in gridlock and ambulances queued outside, the healthcare system is on the brink with experts calling for radical change and federal intervention.

  • by Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
The glitz and the gore: Behind the scenes of a celebrity cosmetic surgeon’s ‘abattoir’ practice

The glitz and the gore: Behind the scenes of a celebrity cosmetic surgeon’s ‘abattoir’ practice

While he flaunts his lifestyle online, the grotesque video of cosmetic surgeon Ryan Wells squeezing fat from a patient’s legs has shocked professionals. CAUTION: GRAPHIC CONTENT

  • by Adele Ferguson and Joel Tozer
‘Please help me, I can’t die’: how social media lured Keisha to the dark side of cosmetic surgery

‘Please help me, I can’t die’: how social media lured Keisha to the dark side of cosmetic surgery

In the world of cosmetic surgery, social media drives turnover in a glossy appeal to vanity. But there is a dark underbelly in the business of making people beautiful. CAUTION: Graphic content.

  • by Adele Ferguson and Joel Tozer
Bonus payments for health workers to tackle hospital staffing crisis

Bonus payments for health workers to tackle hospital staffing crisis

All staff who work in Victoria’s public hospitals and ambulance services – including nurses, midwives, doctors, and paramedics – will get an extra $3000 payment.

  • by Melissa Cunningham and Aisha Dow
Seven-hour ambulance wait: Family wants painful death of Newcastle woman investigated

Seven-hour ambulance wait: Family wants painful death of Newcastle woman investigated

The grieving family of Margaret France described the death of their mother and sister as “unacceptably traumatic”.

  • by Lucy Carroll