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Jessica Rain Jones and her mother Jennie Jones. Jessica was an indigenous woman who died while at St Vincent’s mental health unit.

‘They took my child from me’: Families call for change after Indigenous suicides in same hospital

After the suicides of two young Indigenous women in a Melbourne mental health ward, the women’s parents are demanding answers and justice.

  • Erin Pearson

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Police outside the scene where two men, a woman and a teenage boy were found dead.

Michael bought what he thought was cocaine. Two hours later, four people were dead

A coroner has found the four friends died of an overdose of nitazines, synthetic opioids 100 times stronger than heroin.

  • Erin Pearson
From left to right, Andrea Madigan, Lisa Murphy and Sarah Franklin.

Coffee dispute fight ends in death while customers pay for drinks and food

Lisa Murphy had coffee thrown on her before a wild fracas on the floor of a 7-Eleven left her screaming that she couldn’t breathe.

  • Erin Pearson
Danielle and Steven Iskander still wonder if the care they received at Northern Hospital had have been different their firstborn child Mia might still be alive.

Baby Mia lived for only eight hours. Her parents still wonder if hospital staff could have saved her

Danielle and Stephen Iskander left Northern Hospital without their first child, who died after unreasonable delays in performing an emergency caesarean.

  • Melissa Cunningham
A coroner is investigating the death of new mum Sarah Skillington.

Sarah gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Less than two weeks later, she died in a mental health ward

A new mother who died within days of being admitted to a private perinatal hospital for anxiety was left unwatched for hours, in breach of hospital protocol, before she was found dead.

  • Erin Pearson
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

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