The failures of Victoria’s emergency call-taking service during the pandemic have been exposed as it emerged other states acted to prepare.
A coroner has been told that Victoria’s triple-zero service missed key opportunities to prepare for a pandemic demand surge,including rejecting an offer to borrow call-takers.
An air traffic controller has told a coroner investigating the deaths of four pilots that he believed warning alerts he received before two planes collided were nuisance alerts that didn’t require a response.
The inquest into the death of Nick Panagiotopoulos,47,who died after a long wait for an ambulance call-taker,is examining whether enough was done to act on warnings before the tragedy.
Despite self-harming in front of staff,Finks boss Brent Reker was moved out of a mental health support unit and into a cell without a psychiatric assessment because medical staff feared him.
The remains,belonging to an unknown number of deceased people,were discovered abandoned in a storage bin inside a leaking fridge in the hospital’s bone lab.
A Victorian coroner will examine how the 32-year-old artist died in his Port Phillip Prison cell,bruised and with drugs in his system.
There’s an encyclopaedia of drug fingerprints housed inside the state’s forensic medicine centre teaming with poisonous matter that’s helping solve the mysteries of how some people are dying.
A coroner found the failures of the Melbourne school and World Challenge Expeditions contributed to the death of 16-year-old Lachlan Cook in 2019.
The coroner has said the 20-year-old’s death in Mozambique was caused by sand that had entered her lungs,and that another person was possibly involved.
Improved rules around full contact training,independent medical staff and an increase in the number of professionals who can remove players from the field have been recommended by the state coroner.