Poor clinical decisions or errors in Perth hospitals contributed to the loss of 85 lives last year, new data shows. Annual reports from the Child and Adolescent Health Service, the North Metropolitan Health Service, the East Metropolitan Health Service and the South Metropolitan Health Service have laid bare a failing health system and also revealed … Read more
Advocates say more medically supervised injection rooms are needed across Melbourne as figures show overdose deaths remain near record-breaking. According to an annual report released by the Coroners Court of Victoria on Thursday, 547 Victorians suffered a fatal overdose in 2023 – three fewer than 2022, when the state recorded its deadliest deaths.
The Greens fear that young people in New South Wales will continue to die of drug overdoses if the government does not begin pill testing trials together with other states before the summer. The warning follows the deaths of two people from heroin overdoses after consuming what they believed to be cocaine at a recent … Read more
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong has condemned the deaths of civilians following an Israeli rocket attack on a school in the Gaza Strip.
Victoria's roads could see another “disaster year” as the number of fatalities among motorcyclists and pedestrians skyrockets. The number of traffic fatalities in the state reached 173 in August, the same total as at the same time in 2023.