Shannon Schubert

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Shannon Schubert

Families and health professionals are calling for better training around stillbirths and bereavement care. For midwife students, their formal education on bereavement care could be just a single sentence or a mention in a lecture... prompting calls for more formal education and better training.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Shannon Schubert

Warning: This story contains information and images relating to stillbirth. For Ellen Pinkstone, the loss of her stillborn baby was a heartbreaking moment. But what happened next only made matters worse.  Ms Pinkstone, 23, gave birth to her son, Sage, in September 2023 at Port Macquarie Base Hospital on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Ms Pinkstone and her partner, Aiden Dempsey, spent three days recovering in hospital after the birth and spending time with their stillborn son.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Emile Pavlich |Rebecca R. Norman |Shannon Schubert

An open water channel in central Victoria has become a wildlife graveyard. A wildlife carer says a kangaroo-proof fence could protect other wildlife from drowning in the waterway. A local MP and a researcher want wildlife to be better considered during infrastructure and housing development planning. Wildlife rescuers are calling on authorities to build a kangaroo-proof fence around a central Victoria waterway to stop animals from drowning.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Shannon Schubert

Labor MP Lisa Chesters has retained the seat of Bendigo for a fifth term in a close contest against a first-time Nationals candidate. Labor has attributed the swing to a "cashed-up campaign" by the Nationals. The Nationals party says the swing in Bendigo has put the heat on Premier Jacinta Allan, who has been the state member for Bendigo East since 1999. It was the "safe" Labor seat that took most by surprise.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Shannon Schubert

Lisa Chesters has retained the regional Victorian seat of Bendigo for the Labor Party. The ABC is projecting Ms Chesters will hold the seat for a fifth term despite a significant swing towards Nationals candidate Andrew Lethlean. The central Victorian seat, in Labor's hands since 1998, has been on a knife's edge since the Albanese government's landslide victory on Saturday night. Ms Chesters held the seat by an 11.2 per cent margin leading into the election.