Australia’s doctors have escalated their push to own chemists as a turf war with pharmacies continues. The Australian Medical Association believes GPs should be allowed to own pharmacies because it could bring down drug costs through better competition and more appropriate targeted medication. That comes against a backdrop of the powerful Pharmacy Guild lobbying for […]

An autistic teenager has been bashed in Melbourne’s west for a second time. Jayden D’Abaco was badly bashed by several teenagers on a bus in Tarneit in 2017. On the weekend the 19-year-old was seriously injured in another bashing in Werribee. He was walking to a nightclub to celebrate a win with his football teammates […]

A woman has died in unusual circumstances after a minor two-car crash at Forest Hill. Her Ford Falcon was involved in a minor collision with another car on Mills Street shortly before 4pm yesterday. The driver, aged 52 from Croydon, stopped a short distance after the incident and stepped out of the vehicle to look […]

A 78-year-old woman was left lying on a mattress on the floor in hospital for more than an hour last night. The woman was transported to Goulburn Valley Hospital by ambulance, only to be left lying on the mattress in a hallway. Danny Hill, Secretary of the Victorian Ambulance Union, said the situation is not […]

Employers have been left in the lurch after an online banking glitch caused their staff to be paid multiple times. Steve runs a business with 45 employees who were yesterday paid five times, leaving him more than $300,000 out of pocket. “When our pay lady, my daughter, went to pay the wages yesterday it came […]

Female PSOs are experiencing sexual harassment twice as often as female police officers across the force, according to an independent review. One-in-four female police officers reported sexual harassment at work in a Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission’s review of Victoria Police. For female PSOs, this figure was doubled; half reported workplace sexual harassment. […]