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A bushfire continues to burn in the Grampians.
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Victoria bushfires

Statewide total fire ban declared as Boxing Day scorcher looms

Tuesday’s mild conditions allowed Halls Gap residents a brief window to return to their homes – but temperatures and wind will soon contribute to extreme fire danger.

  • by Angus Delaney
The scene of a house fire in Meadow Springs on Sunday.
Fire

‘Like hell on earth’: Neighbours tell of frantic efforts to save boy from fatal house fire

  • by Cameron Myles
Transport Minister Jo Haylen said on Tuesday that families can travel on New Year’s Eve with confidence.
Public transport

Ceasefire in rail pay dispute saves Sydney’s New Year’s Eve

  • by Matt O'Sullivan
Andrew McDonald addresses the fitness concerns surrounding Travis Head before the Boxing Day Test.
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McDonald 'confident' Head will play

Molly Noonan-Medley has been missing since October 2024.
Missing person

Christmas Eve appeal for 8-year-old girl missing since October

  • by Jessica McSweeney

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Hospitals

Government warned two years ago about allegations surgeons ripping off WorkCover

The news comes after The Age revealed IBAC is combing through WorkCover bills, not just TAC invoices, as part of its probe into a handful of surgeons at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

  • by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
Australian Nursing Federation state secretary Romina Raschilla.
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Trade unions

WA nurses’ union members back new government pay deal

The new deal avoids an ugly showdown between Labor and WA’s biggest union ahead of the March state election.

  • by Cameron Myles
Foreign doctors are being sold the dream of living near the Sydney Opera House or at Byron Bay as the state government desperately tries to fill hospital psychiatrist roles. 
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Hospitals

‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes

  • by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?
Skin cancer

Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?

  • by Catherine Strohfeldt
Digital health services and infection control will be boosted by the new funding.
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Healthcare

Australia cannot afford to ignore these 1100 – or 13.4 million – women

  • The Herald's View
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