New laws could see Victorians get a lethal dose in days
People with terminal illnesses could access lethal medication with 10 days of requesting it.
People with terminal illnesses could access lethal medication with 10 days of requesting it.
Terminally-ill Victorians who decide to end their lives will have to prove their lethal drugs are stored in a locked box to stop them falling into the wrong hands.
Australian hospitals are being forced to ration a painkiller used in millions of operations each year.
Caffeine used to treat premature babies.
Patients at a private hospital in Melbourne's east have been quarantined over a nine-day period after an outbreak of gastroenteritis.
A frightening series of "spontaneous" glass balcony explosions at Melbourne apartment buildings has highlighted the dangers of cheap and faulty construction products flooding into Australia.
Health Minister says 'every health care building in Victoria has been declared safe and fit to occupy".
Hundreds of tenants living in at least a dozen high-rise blocks are unaware their buildings could be flammable-cladding fire traps.
"Decaying" old apartment buildings around Melbourne could be demolished and sold to developers under proposed reforms that could see people's homes forcibly acquired.
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