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Sep 24, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Vanessa Brown |Vince Wilkinson |Rachael L. Niederer
Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
BreakingAustralia’s third largest airline has fallen into insolvency and entered voluntary administration after a disastrous attempt to compete with Qantas and Virgin Australia. Regional Express, better known as Rex, will ground all its Boeing 737 jets and cease flying immediately between Australia’s major cities. Virgin has said it will allow Rex customers with tickets on 737 flights to transfer them to its services.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
It’s the ultra-long haul route that has been dangled like a carrot since before the pandemic plagued the world. A route so extreme, you’ll be buckled into your seat for upwards of 20 hours — non stop. But in little more than two years time, the behemoth route dubbed ‘Project Sunrise’ – which will see Aussies fly from the east coast of the country into ports such as London and New York without a single stop – is closer now than ever before.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
In just a few short weeks, Australia’s national carrier will be saying bonjour to a new route not seen departing down under for more than 20 years. From July 12, Qantas will launch a new direct service between Perth and Paris — and just in time for the 2024 Olympics. As the only carrier to offer the route, a string of changes to the airline’s menu will be introduced — all with a French flair.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
She was once a Queen of the ocean. But after the shock announcement that one of the most iconic names in the cruising world – P&O Australia – would be no more from next year, one of the liner’s favourite ships has a grim fate ahead. While the Pacific Encounter and Pacific Adventure ships, which are currently under the P&O banner, will carry on sailing under the Carnival Cruise name, the Pacific Explorer ship will no longer operate in Australian waters.
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May 19, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
Dust off those passports, because a sale one airline says is the “best it has ever seen” has just landed. Virgin Australia has launched its mammoth mid-year international sale, flinging fares from just$315 return to popular holiday destinations such as Bali, Samoa, Vanuatu, Queenstown, Fiji and Tokyo. With Queenstown and Tokyo both topping the list as popular spots for Aussies over winter, the airline expects these routes to be some of the most popular for the sale.
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May 13, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
Just nine months after launching, Australian airline Qantas has announced the suspension of a major route from Australia into China. The national carrier, which resumed its Sydney to Shanghai route in October last year after it was axed during Covid, has failed to reach pre-pandemic demand. As a result, the route will cease from July 28, 2024 with the airline continuing to monitor the Australia-China market. When demand appears to lift, the airline may consider bringing back the route.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
Gone are the days of switching your phone off and enjoying a little tech-free time at 30,000 feet. Because with in-flight Wi-Fi, even passengers on long haul flights to every corner of the world can stay connected to their emails and socials around the clock. And in welcome news amid the cost-of-living crisis, Australian airline Qantas will make jumping on Wi-Fi a whole lot easier — and cheaper — for overseas passengers.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Vanessa Brown
+Practice In print Clinical update Individualised treatment of postherpetic neuralgia [Image: Fisle, CC BY-SA 3.0] This article examines the options available for management of pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia This Practice article has been endorsed by the RNZCGP and has been approved for up to 0.25 credits for continuing professional development purposes (1, Educate small, BACK panel - grey Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
escape.com.au | Vanessa Brown
Qantas airlines have announced they will be launching a new international route, which the carrier has not had in the sky for almost 50 years. The new service, between Sydney and Papua New Guinea’s Port Moresby, will operate two return flights each week adding to the airline’s already existing service from Brisbane. “These flights will meet the growing demand from the business community for travel betweenAustralia and Papua New Guinea,” Mr Wallace said.
