High levels of sick leave led to Victoria being down 50 ambulances over the weekend, with one man dying while waiting for treatment, the head of the state’s paramedics union claims. The Victorian Ambulance Union secretary, Danny Hill, said he’d […]
A mother charged with murdering her two sons at their Blue Mountains home has made a brief court appearance where she was remanded in custody. The 42-year-old woman fronted Parramatta local court in Sydney for the first time on Saturday
Families who lost loved ones in a deadly New South Wales bus crash say they will launch a class-action lawsuit as the driver responsible was sent to prison for decades. Brett Button, 59, was sentenced on Wednesday to 32 years
Bus driver Brett Button, who crashed killing 10 people and injuring 25 in the Hunter Valley, said he was ashamed for committing the “ultimate sin”. Giving evidence in his defence on Wednesday during a Newcastle district court sentence hearing, Button,
The grieving father of the youngest victim of the Hunter Valley wedding bus crash which claimed 10 lives and injured 25 has told how his loss has caused “an irreparable void that will never be filled”. Steven Symons, reading from
A New South Wales nurses’ strike has prompted warnings to keep ambulances and emergency departments clear of minor cases as Labor feels the heat from public sector unions. Nurses and midwives are walking off the job across NSW for 12
A judge has warned bus driver Brett Button he can expect a lengthy jail term but told the victims’ grieving families “justice is not about revenge”. Newcastle district court judge Roy Ellis on Monday asked for restraint in the packed
The search for a man who allegedly poured scalding coffee on a nine-month-old baby has widened to include international police. The infant underwent his third round of surgery on 3 September after the “cowardly” and random alleged attack in a
The federal government will pay up to $202m compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century. The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of
Fatal medication errors killed 18 patients and four died or were seriously harmed after objects were left inside their bodies after surgery, a review into harmful events at Victorian hospitals has revealed. The deaths are among 245 sentinel or “harm
