James Swan Palakamannil sobbed as he recalled to a courtroom the night his wife took her life and those of their two young girls.
James Leonard Fairhall murdered Noeline Dalzell after arriving at the family home in breach of safety orders.
Two and a half years after the death of Noah Souvatzis,an emergency department doctor says he is kept up at night by unacceptable patient waiting times.
Paul Bumford told a coroner he was on his first locum shift at Wangaratta hospital when he treated Noah Souvatzis and should have escalated his care to a more senior doctor.
Noah loved cuddles,the swings and music,but his parents say a chaotic and under-resourced regional health system took the 19-month-old from them.
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.