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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Bec Symons |Danielle Pope |Daniel Franklin |Sharon Gordon
One of Victoria's biggest regional hospitals has reported nine sentinel events in five years — a tally of patients, including infants, who have died or experienced serious harm due to adverse care. Staff members say those numbers are the tip of the iceberg. WARNING: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing. Nadine Lont was expecting her baby girl to be born big and healthy at Latrobe Regional Hospital in September.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
A multi-billion dollar bid to convert coal from the Latrobe Valley into hydrogen has hit a major roadblock after an international partner walked away from a trial in the region. Japanese media reported on Friday that Kawasaki Heavy Industries had withdrawn from the trial to develop a hydrogen network.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
While many year 12 students may now find themselves faced with the question of what to do next, Lilly Kohn has it all figured out. The 17-year-old is going to take a gap year before joining the police academy. "When I was growing up at my mum's house, me and my older brother were always like, well we want to go into the police academy," she said.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
Like many, Hannah Farthing suddenly found her plans cancelled by COVID in 2020. With an international holiday on hold, the Trafalgar GP took up the hobby of completing jigsaw puzzles as a way to fill in time. While she had already developed a love of puzzles at a young age, Dr Farthing said the months of lockdown saw her hone her talent into a finer skill and eventually enter the competitive world of jigsaw puzzling.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
A Gippsland man has been sentenced to five years in jail after the buggy he was driving flipped and killed a six-year-old girl in 2021. Damien Gibson, 36, was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court today after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death. Three years ago, on September 11, 2021, Gibson took his five children, their friend Olivia Stevens, 6, and another boy for a joy ride at his farm in Rosedale. All seven children were unrestrained and not wearing helmets.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
James Lothian had started a life in Thailand with a new wife and child when a car accident put him in an intensive care unit. The fly-in, fly-out mining construction worker from Gippsland, in Victoria's east, had been living between Perth and Thailand for several years with wife Sky and their three-year-old son. He thought he had done the right thing when he secured travel insurance. But when the accident happened in March this year, he and his family realised it had expired.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jarrod Whittaker |Danielle Pope
It wasn't until their children had grown up and moved out that David and Rose became foster parents. The couple had considered it while their children were growing up and finally decided to get involved once they found themselves with an empty house and three spare bedrooms. "We're in the lucky position that we live near the beach, so it's a great place for children to come and have a little holiday," Rose said.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
Matthew Watt has faced many emergencies during his nine years as a paramedic but he says the night of Friday, August 16 was one of the worst. Ambulances were ramped at Bairnsdale hospital in eastern Victoria and paramedic crews had to be reassigned from surrounding areas. It left two of Gippsland's most populous regions, the Latrobe Valley and Wellington Shire, without paramedics because they had been called out to other emergencies.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | William Howard |Danielle Pope
Two bakery workers and a cleaner were tied up during an armed robbery at a shopping centre in Yarram, east of Melbourne. A man and a woman tried to steal cash from an ATM at the centre in the early hours of Friday morning. Police are seeking public assistance to identify the thieves. Two bakers and a shopping centre cleaner were tied up and held at gunpoint during an early morning armed robbery in the small town of Yarram, in Victoria's east.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Danielle Pope
In short: There are concerns the overseas outbreak of bird flu poses a risk to the little penguins on Phillip Island. Scientists say migratory birds could bring the deadly H5 strain to Australia when they return in spring. What's next? Plans are being developed to protect the world-famous penguins on Phillip Island if an outbreak occurs.
