Articles by Jackson Graham

  • State to review urgent-care centre

    The State Government will review Victoria’s regional urgent-care centres after ruling that a Colac Area Health fee was inconsistent with national health funding rules.

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  • Minister wants hospital to reimburse $60 payments

    Victoria’s Health Minister Jill Hennessy says she expects Colac Area Health to reimburse patients charged a $60 fee to attend the hospital’s urgent-care centre.

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  • Urgent care patients face new $60 charge

    PATIENTS visiting Colac Area Health’s urgent care must cough up $60 for their visit while people using emergency rooms in bigger hospitals pay nothing. 

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  • Boost for phone coverage

    A new mobile phone base station at Birregurra is set to improve the region’s coverage, the Federal Government says.

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  • Families take shelter as fire roars through

    Lindsay and Lynette Ludeman were on a holiday in Tasmania when they learnt their Glenfyne dairy farm was in the path of grassfires that blazed through south-west Victoria on the weekend.

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