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Dubbo health.

‘Very serious’: Health charity investigated after Las Vegas trip

Senior bosses from a taxpayer-funded regional health service will meet government bodies on Thursday to respond to allegations it spent thousands on international trips while turning away patients.

  • Angus Thomson

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Dubbo health.

Health bosses rack up $400,000 travel bill while patients wait for care

Staff at the service, which receives $10 million in taxpayer funding, say they are forced to turn away patients due to a critical shortage of doctors and nurses.

  • Angus Thomson
Renee said the government robbed Jack of his childhood.

Jack’s mother thought he was being looked after. He died desperate and alone

Jack died in the Blue Mountains the day after his birthday. For his mother Renee, it was the tragic end to years of pain that should never have happened.

  • Amber Schultz
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Good diplomacy, or just papering over the cracks?

While in Dubbo, the uke prevails over the ute.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb at Sandy Beach Reserve, by Macquarie River, Dubbo.

‘We’re going to lose a generation of children’: Webb declares war on youth crime

Some children are committing break and enters, posing for photos while holding machetes over victims’ sleeping bodies and boasting about it on social media.

  • Amber Schultz
Dugald Saunders and Jo Haylen have both fallen foul of the rules around using public-funded transport.

NSW Nationals leader jetted to the wineries. He took ministerial car too

Documents released via freedom of information show then-agriculture minister Dugald Saunders took a ministerial vehicle with him on a controversial Hunter Valley trip.

  • Michael McGowan
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NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders

Jetting to the wineries: NSW Nationals leader took RFS plane to Hunter Valley

NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders was the only passenger on a 34-minute taxpayer-funded flight from Dubbo to the Hunter region for a two-day trip which included a wine tour and tasting.

  • Michael McGowan, Alexandra Smith and Max Maddison
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The housing change that has these doctors furious

FIFO doctors raised concerns ranging from the distance between the hospital and accommodation to a lack of comfortable furniture and crockery.

  • Angus Thomson
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The weekend that landed Latrell in trouble

It was meant to be a weekend of good deeds by the South Sydney star. It made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Daniel Billings is now in custody.

The cruel twist of fate that let an accused killer walk free

Daniel Billings was charged with stalking, rape and animal cruelty. Police said he’d threatened his former partner. There was no magistrate, so a registrar gave him bail.

  • Jordan Baker, Perry Duffin and Jonathan Drennan

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