Wodonga
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
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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
'Appalling': Melbourne person fined after driving 320km for a Big Mac
One Melburnian has been caught driving to Wodonga for a McDonald’s Big Mac, while another travelled to Ballarat to get some "fresh air" in brazen breaches of lockdown restrictions.
- Ashleigh McMillan
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