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Hardline United Patriots Front vows return to Bendigo

United Patriot Front supporters and counter-protesters clash in Bendigo on Saturday. Photo: Meredith O'Shea. Anti-Islam protesters have threatened to return to Bendigo this month as part of a sustained campaign to stop the regional city's first mosque ... >> view original

Neil from Bendigo finds 'secret' elevator into Etihad Stadium

Is there a 'secret' elevator into Etihad Stadium? Neil Wedlick thinks he may have found one. The Bendigo pensioner made the trip to Melbourne with a friend to watch St Kilda take on Sydney last Sunday. They parked their car under the stadium and made ... >> view original

Composer Olga Neuwirth has written a score for the silent film Maudite soit la ...

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth gets into the grainy intersections of contemporary music, screen culture and digital media. She is not heard often in this country, but a recent work pops up in Victoria this weekend at David Chisholm's Bendigo ... >> view original

NSW doctors call for more hospital beds as emergency visits climb by 25%

The Bureau of Health Information's latest quarterly report shows a 25% increase in patient numbers going to emergency departments over the past five years. Photograph: Rex Features. Australian Associated Press. Wednesday 2 September 2015 04.25 EDT. >> view original

Mum who built cage for ice-addict son speaks with Qld Health Minister

A photo of the home-made cage a Rockhampton mother has built to house her ice-addicted son. Photo: Contributed. Qld mother builds cage to house ice-addict son. Drug-addicted teenagers "really need help", says a desperate Queensland mother who built ... >> view original

Journalist Julia Baird reveals cancer diagnosis that had her 'gripped with terror'

The Australian journalist Julia Baird has spoken about how being diagnosed with cancer had her “gripped with terror”. Baird, who is one of the hosts of ABC's The Drum, wrote in her column for the New York Times on Wednesday that she was hospitalised in ... >> view original

SA hospital record tampered with

A PATIENT'S records were tampered with at an Adelaide Hospital, a state government investigation has found. FOUR SA Health workers tried to illegally delete a Lyell McEwin Hospital patient's radiology record, chief medical officer Paddy Phillips says. >> view original

Medicare billed a million times a day

Health minister Sussan Ley said the annual Medicare figures for 2014-15 showed 21 million Australians accessed more than 368 million individual Medicare services. That cost taxpayers more than $20 billion. >> view original

University student with measles visits Queen Street Mall, Spring Hill and St Lucia

Another university student is the eighth confirmed case in a recent measles outbreak in Brisbane. It is the latest case of the highly contagious virus linked to the University of Queensland (UQ) at St Lucia since late July, according to Queensland Health. >> view original

Cosmetic surgery leaves woman hospitalised

A YOUNG woman is recovering in hospital after she suffered a heart attack during her cosmetic surgery at a Sydney clinic. THE Cosmetic Institute said a 22-year-old woman was at its Bondi clinic undergoing a cosmetic operation, reportedly a breast ... >> view original