If it is too complicated to compile a simple spreadsheet about safety records, I fear for the people our largest government department is looking out for.
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Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith wiped the contents of his laptop five days after he was told by lawyers in a defamation case to retain certain information and documents, a court has heard.
Mr Roberts-Smith, 42, is suing
The Sydney Morning Herald,
The Age and
The Canberra Times over a series of stories published in 2018, which he says are defamatory because they portray him as someone who “broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement” and committed murder.
Suing for defamation: Ben Roberts-Smith pictured on 2015.
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The trial, due to begin in Sydney on June 7, is expected to last six to eight weeks.
WA Premier for a day: Residents reveal what they’d tackle first
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What would you do if you were in West Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s shoes for a day?
Investing in healthcare has become an important issue for people in WA, with 10 per cent of respondents to a new survey saying they would address the issue if they were premier for a day, up from just 4 per cent in 2018.
Perth residents say if they were Premier Mark McGowan for a day, they would address the cost of healthcare.
Perth hospitals operating at 90 per cent capacity with hundreds of beds offline
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Perth’s hospitals are operating at 90 per cent maximum capacity due to staff, equipment and funding shortages preventing the opening of more than 400 beds including 178 sitting empty in decommissioned wards.
The shortfall comes as medical bodies continue to sound the alarm over doctors and nurses being overworked, with reports of patients overflowing into corridors and internal emergencies to clear beds being regularly called.
Nurses and doctors protesting resourcing and systemic issues on Tuesday.
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A close contact of one of those cases also returned a positive result on Tuesday morning, before four members of his family tested positive on Tuesday afternoon.
The first five cases have been linked through genomic testing to a Melbourne man who tested positive more than two weeks ago and who is suspected of becoming infected while in hotel quarantine in South Australia.
Cases 10 to 15 include workplace contacts of case nine.
The Curry Vault restaurant in Bank Place, in the CBD, was named an exposure site after a Wollert man who contracted coronavirus dined there earlier this month.