Broede Carmody

Melbourne, Wodonga

State Political Reporter at The Age

State political reporter for @theage. Tips: [email protected].

Articles

Cyberattacks at two Melbourne hospitals expose patient details on dark web

3 days ago | theage.com.au | Henrietta Cook |Broede Carmody

By Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody June 25, 2025 — 3.56pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Private details of hundreds of patients linked to at least two major Melbourne hospitals have been leaked on the dark web following a cyberattack.
Victorian Heart hospital to close operating theatre, beds for “fiscal sustainability”

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Broede Carmody |Henrietta Cook

By Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook June 21, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Patients with life-threatening conditions will wait longer for treatment after the state’s new $600 million cardiac hospital decided to axe an operating theatre and six recovery beds, Melbourne’s top doctors have warned.
NDIS to slash fees for key health workers to curb costs

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Broede Carmody |Grant McArthur

By Broede Carmody and Grant McArthur June 11, 2025 — 3.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key National Disability Insurance Scheme health workers such as physiotherapists, dietitians and podiatrists will have their payments slashed in the new financial year as the agency that runs the $48.8 billion scheme seeks to bring down its costs.
Health minister to block Eastern Health paediatric shake-up

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Broede Carmody |Henrietta Cook

By Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook June 11, 2025 — 10.50am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A plan to transport seriously sick kids from one major hospital in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs to another has been overruled by Victoria’s health minister, who said she would oppose the axing of paediatric services.
Health minister to block Eastern Health paediatric shake-up

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Broede Carmody |Henrietta Cook

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Maroondah Hospital to drop specialty paediatric services

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Broede Carmody |Henrietta Cook

By Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook June 10, 2025 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Seriously ill children who present at a major hospital in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs will soon be transported to another site 20 minutes away as part of a contentious move to improve the health service’s “financial stability”. From November there will be no paediatricians working at the hospital.
Former Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto served bankruptcy notice

3 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Alexander Darling |Broede Carmody

John Pesutto has accepted a bankruptcy notice served to him, as the consequences of Liberal colleague Moira Deeming’s successful defamation action against him continue to play out. Two sources close to the proceedings confirmed that the official notice had been served on the former state opposition leader on Friday.
Botched Victorian hospital stays caused more than 100 deaths

3 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Broede Carmody

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Three Victorian patients died or were seriously harmed after receiving surgery on the wrong part of their body last financial year. Two others were left with life-threatening complications because foreign objects – such as surgical sponges, cotton swabs or clamps – were unintentionally left inside them at the end of an invasive procedure.
‘No hope of ever paying’: The Victorian with more than $400,000 in unpaid toll fines

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Daniella White |Broede Carmody

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‘No hope of ever paying’: The Victorian with more than $400,000 in unpaid toll fines

2 months ago | theage.com.au | Daniella White |Broede Carmody

‘No hope of ever paying’: The Victorian with more than $400,000 in unpaid toll finesBy Daniella White and Broede Carmody April 21, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Toll fees are the driving force behind Victoria’s largest unpaid fines, and one offender owes an eye-watering $406,931, prompting lawyers to call for an overhaul of the state’s penalty system.