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There are calls to crackdown on alcohol delivery.

Curfews, time delays on alcohol delivery urged after woman drank herself to death

Kathleen Arnold, 30, was found dead with a blood-alcohol reading of .54. Her death prompted calls for a crackdown on alcohol home delivery services.

  • Erin Pearson

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Shaken baby syndrome.

Coroner investigates baby’s death after home birth gone wrong

A coroner will investigate the death of a newborn baby who died after the mother planned a home birth in regional Victoria.

  • Erin Pearson
The teenage boy took premixed drinks from home to a family Christmas Day lunch.

Victorian teen drank himself to death at family Christmas

A Christmas lunch turned deadly after a teenager consumed more than a dozen alcoholic drinks, a coronial inquest has found.

  • Emily Woods
A Victorian coroner has asked the state’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board to consider several suicides by people who were ruled ineligible.

Denied access to euthanasia, they took their own lives. A coroner hopes their despair will not go unheeded

The euthanasia watchdog has been urged to consider the impact of voluntary assisted dying refusal under current Victorian rules.

  • Broede Carmody
Noeline Dalzell was murdered by her former partner.

Noeline wasn’t warned her ex had been released from jail early. Soon after, she was murdered

The case has prompted the state coroner to call for an overhaul of the way Victoria deals with family violence perpetrators.

  • Erin Pearson
Even the shallowest of pools can be a drowning hazard for very young children.

A mother took a phone call. Nine minutes later, her son was found face down in the pool

Children aged one and two are most at risk of drowning, according to the coroner, who has urged parents to be vigilant when supervising toddlers near water.

  • Erin Pearson
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Death cap mushrooms are mainly found near oak trees in the wild and can be deadly.

Grandmother dies after eating wild mushrooms from her front yard

The state coroner called for awareness campaigns after Bayswater woman Loreta Maria Del Rossi, 98, died after a dinner of mushrooms, rice and tuna with her son.

  • Erin Pearson
Photograph of Harry Tsindos, father of James Tsindos,

Wheeze should have been red flag, inquest into teen’s death hears

James Tsindos, 17, went from experiencing seemingly mild symptoms, linked to a nut allergy, to a cardiac arrest.

  • Melissa Cunningham
George Diamond died in February 2019.

Boxer’s death may have been preventable: coroner

State Coroner John Cain has urged an overhaul of concussion treatment protocols after a young boxer’s death.

  • Melissa Cunningham
Angela Pucci Love outside the Coroners Court.

Coroner urges missing persons overhaul after probe into deaths of young trans women

The police search for Bridget Flack – whose body was found in park by members of the LGBTQ community – was plagued by deficiencies, including a failure to appreciate her risk of suicide and delayed efforts to triangulate her phone.

  • Melissa Cunningham

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