Wodonga
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- Hospitals
Hospital workers in major regional hubs more prone to burn out
Staff at Victoria’s larger regional hospitals are more likely to be physically and mentally exhausted than their peers at major urban trauma centres.
- Broede Carmody
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Hospital carve-up completed, new health networks unveiled
The Allan government is creating 12 new networks – each designed to service at least 200,000 people – after consulting hospitals, doctors and councils opposed to the original plan.
- Henrietta Cook and Sumeyya Ilanbey
Victorian schools are losing out in the border battle for teachers
Victorian graduate teachers are the worst paid in the country, with fears a NSW pay bump could make the teacher shortage worse for regional schools.
- Alex Crowe
‘A huge hole’: Family hopes man’s death after knee surgery sparks change
Kenneth Toll was one of three patients to die after receiving bilateral knee replacement surgery from a NSW orthopaedic surgeon, a five-day inquest heard.
- Angus Thomson
Seymour told to evacuate, too late to leave for Yea as floodwaters rise
Bendigo residents are also being warned of possible flash floods as thunderstorms batter the state.
- Alex Crowe, Broede Carmody and Caroline Schelle
- Series
- Cities of the Future
Cities of the Future
In this series, The Age explores how Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga will change in the coming decades.
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- Trains
‘Overcrowded’: Cheap train tickets a hit, but passengers forced to stand for hours
In May, Public Transport Minister Ben Carroll encouraged commuters who had to stand on V/Line trains to “use the hand holds available”.
- Broede Carmody and Benjamin Preiss
- Opinion
- Population
When a vision of shiny new cities meant moving to the country
I was among a frolic of optimists who moved to what was billed as Australia’s national growth centre in the mid-1970s.
- Tony Wright
Colonoscopy ‘recall’: Almost 2000 Albury-Wodonga patients at risk, watchdog says
The healthcare watchdog has warned that a surgeon operated on the wrong end of a patient’s colon and made other serious errors since 2018.
- Aisha Dow and Caroline Schelle
Fish out of water: Life inside the ever-changing border bubble
When Tegan Greenfield worked in Albury, customers saw a Victorian number plate and said ‘they need to go home’. She lives just three kilometres away.
- Michael Fowler