Updated guidelines for the treatment of PTSD aim to provide support tailored for emergency workers.
The failures of Victoria’s emergency call-taking service during the pandemic have been exposed as it emerged other states acted to prepare.
CEO Vicki Brady says basic errors were behind the outage that left more than 100 Australians unable to contact triple zero,including one man who passed away.
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.
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.
An watch and act has now replaced an emergency warning that saw residents evacuate their homes in the suburbs of Bedfordale and Ashendon near Armadale.
The government has written to the chief executives of Telstra,Optus and TPG amid fears nearly 1 million Australians may be left unable to contact triple zero.
Brant Webb is one of two men saved from the Beaconsfield goldmine disaster of 2006 and urged Ballarat mine survivors to share their deepest fears and feelings with loved ones.
The state’s work safety regulator has closed the Ballarat Gold Mine to begin investigations into the collapse that saw two workers pinned under fallen rocks.
Kurt Hourigan,a 37-year-old miner from Bruthen in Gippsland,died and his 21-year-old colleague is fighting for his life in hospital after rock collapsed on them 500 metres underground.
A rescue effort is under way after a Ballarat mine collapse pinned two miners under rocks and forced 25 others to take refuge in an underground safety pod.