Thousands of patients face massive cost hikes as hospitals pull plug on NIB
St Vincent’s Health Australia has given notice to the insurance giant that it will terminate its contract after negotiations broke down.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Accused Sydney uni attacker allegedly previously planned terrorist attack
A teenager who allegedly stabbed a 22-year-old university in the neck on Sydney University grounds on Tuesday morning was previously charged with planning a “Christchurch-style” terrorist attack.
- by Sally Rawsthorne, Clare Sibthorpe, Jessica McSweeney and Kate Aubusson
Son’s anguish over police domestic violence response to dying mother
The NSW Northern Rivers is in shock after Sarah Miles was allegedly killed by her male partner in the third fatal case of domestic violence in the area this year.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Dalton
Only one Sydney site monitored for cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water
The premier, health minister and chief medico are all at pains to stress the safety of our water supply as authorities are monitoring just one site for carcinogenic contaminants.
- by Kate Aubusson and Carrie Fellner
Flu-monia: The cocktail of coughs putting NSW hospitals on high alert
Emergency departments are braced for a punishing winter of respiratory illnesses as rising numbers of children are presenting to hospital.
- by Kate Aubusson
‘They were grown men with guns. I was in my PJs’: The crises where police aren’t wanted
Police should be relegated to back-up support for mental health workers or not respond at all to call-outs for severely mentally ill people in crisis, a major state inquiry has concluded.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Cancer
Why is cancer so hard to cure?
Some 50,000 Australians will die from cancer this year, despite big breakthroughs in treatments. What makes cancer so very tough to treat?
- by Kate Aubusson, Jackson Graham and Felicity Lewis
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Ambulance
‘Tragedy almost inconceivable’: Man charged with murder of paramedic
A 21-year-old man allegedly murdered Steven Tougher, who was stabbed at a McDonald’s in Sydney’s south-west on Friday morning.
- by Kate Aubusson, Sarah Keoghan and Olivia Ireland
Updated
Crime
‘This has really hit all of us’: Paramedic dies after being stabbed in south-west Sydney
The male paramedic was “an hour or two away” from finishing his night shift. He was treated at the scene and taken to Liverpool Hospital, but later died.
- by Sarah Keoghan and Kate Aubusson
‘Inspiring hope’: Spinal cord injury trials offer Alex a chance of wriggling his fingers
Alex dreams of being able to walk, stand or just use his fingers. Two world-leading clinical trials give him hope.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Doctors at work
‘Superstar’ surgeon resigns from Westmead Children’s Hospital
A hospital in the United States has poached the services of a leading heart surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Westmead.
- by Kate Aubusson