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City life
Where we live: The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods
In this series, The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.
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Diet
The fad diet linked to an increasing risk of chronic disease
Carb cutting has become a global trend, endorsed by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, and credited with quick weight loss and blood sugar management. But a new Victorian study raises concerns about type 2 diabetes.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
Ambulance Victoria hit in coffers by patient billing ban
Protracted industrial action by paramedics, including an indefinite pause on taking billing details from patients, is hitting the service’s bottom line.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Cassandra Morgan
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LGBTQ
Trans woman wins landmark discrimination case against female-only app
Roxanne Tickle was awarded $10,000 after the Federal Court upheld her discrimination complaint against female-only app Giggle for Girls, which had blocked her.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Nick Bonyhady
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Ambulance Victoria
Ambulance Victoria chief executive resigns amid industrial dispute
Paramedics recently passed a vote of no-confidence in the troubled emergency service’s leadership.
- by Jewel Topsfield, Lachlan Abbott and Rachel Eddie
‘Having a gun to your face is scary’: What saved Kaea from a life of crime
Kaea Takiari was a teenager when police raided the house he was staying in. Years later, he’s trying to help other young people get out of a life in crime.
- by Jewel Topsfield
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Healthcare
Patients told to drink water as hospitals ration IV drips
An internal Victorian Department of Health document calls on health services to conserve 14 intravenous fluid products at risk of shortages.
- by Henrietta Cook and Jewel Topsfield
The moment Jim closed his eyes – and exposed Ambulance Victoria’s ‘festering sore’
After an 18½ hour shift, Jim Avard had a terrible accident. His experience became a lightning rod for paramedics in a dispute that threatens to engulf the ambulance service.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
Hunger Games hospitals: Victoria’s radical health shake-up sparks fears
Victoria’s health system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’, as the government announces an overhaul that will avoid mergers but centralise staff and services.
- by Rachel Eddie, Broede Carmody, Jewel Topsfield and Kieran Rooney
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Illness
Cooling tower that caused deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak found
A Laverton North cooling tower has been identified as the likely source of the state’s worst Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in more than two decades.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
Hundreds of staff underpaid by private healthcare provider
Healthscope, one of Australia’s largest private hospital operators, is making remediation payments after estimating it underpaid staff by $21.7 million.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Henrietta Cook