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[Link] Sam lives in Tasmania but has to fly to Melbourne to get the ADHD help he needs
Read: 6/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Tasmania has just one specialist ADHD clinic servicing the whole state and only three psychiatrists that will take ADHD patients. For Mr Mitchell, it meant he resorted to visiting a psychiatrist in Victoria to manage his disorder.
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[Link] Omicron 'may already be here in Australia'. Experts say there's more we can do to stop COVID
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Just weeks after Australia declared it was opening its borders to the world, some restrictions have been reimposed in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, first detected in South Africa.
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[Link] Doctors say Flight Centre should ‘pull its head in’ after legal threat to WA borders
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Medical professionals have lashed out at Flight Centre’s threat to launch legal action against the Western Australian government’s ongoing border restrictions, calling on the company to “pull its head in”.
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[Link] Massage parlour operators who threatened to kill families of underpaid staff breached workplace laws, court finds
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Federal Court has found the former operators of a Canberra massage business breached workplace laws by underpaying their staff and threatening to have their families in the Philippines killed if they complained.
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[Link] Man who stabbed nurse at Adelaide hospital to spend another 10 months in mental health facility
Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Trent Jason Miller was arrested in June 2019, and charged with causing serious harm to the Lyell McEwin Hospital nurse. He was found not guilty of harm, due to mental incompetence, earlier this year.
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[Link] Thailand develops robotic system to up Covid vaccine doses
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Researchers in Thailand have developed a machine to draw out Covid-19 vaccine doses more efficiently and optimise lower-than-expected supplies as the country struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.
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