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Huw Cushing | A 20-YEAR-OLDPortland man yesterday died after being shot in the stomach during an incident on Barkly Street on Monday. The man was taken to Portland’s emergency department by two other men just before 5.30pm on Monday, and underwent surgery once a specialist unit of doctors from Melbourne, known as the Adult Retrieval Team, flew in to stabilise him. The team then airlifted him toRoyal Melbourne Hospital at 1am, where he died hours later, according to an Ambulance Victoria spokesman. A … Continue reading 0 Comments
Huw Cushing | A 20-YEAR-OLDPortland man died today after being shot in the stomach during an incident on Barkly Street on Monday. The man was taken to Portland’s emergency department by two other men just before 5.30pm on Monday, and underwent surgery once a specialist … Continue reading 0 Comments
Steve Robertson | SOMEWHERE in Greece, there’s a merchant seaman who reckons Portlanders are just about the nicest people on the planet. At Monday’s 50th anniversary celebrations for Portland’s Mission to Seafarers, manager Neville Manson told a story to about 35 guests, a … Continue reading 0 Comments
Danielle Grindlay | EXPECTANT mothers seeking specialist care in Hamilton must not only pay the ‘excessive’ fees the Government previously subsidised, they have to travel to Warrnambool to see the nearest obstetrician. Specialists have renewed efforts to reverse a decision that meant federal … Continue reading 0 Comments
Ian Lewis | GAVIN Doherty has come a long way since his school years at St Mary’s Primary School and Monivae College in Hamilton. Instead of plying his trade as a budding footballer in various St Mary’s under age football teams, he now … Continue reading
Steve Robertson | PORT of Portland’s pitch spill incident is officially over, but the effects of the week-long crisis are likely to be felt for some time to come. A week after more than 600 tonnes of hot pitch escaped from a Koppers … Continue reading
Rex Martinich | HAMILTON obstetrician and gynaecologist Cobus Cloete has had his right to practise medicine suspended by the Medical Board of Australia. The board’s written policy on all immediate suspensions states: “The board’s decision to take immediate action and potentially suspend a … Continue reading
Rex Martinich | HAMILTON, Penshurst, Coleraine, Casterton and Mount Gambier will lose their State Government funded community bus that connects the towns on the first day of 2012. The Penshurst to Hamilton as well as the Hamilton to Mt Gambier via Coleraine and … Continue reading
Spectator-Observer Partnership | Originally written by HUW CUSHING MORE THAN 20 local dairy farmers convened at Heathmere Hall on Friday to share their worries over an impending carbon tax. Dairy farms are notoriously heavy users of electricity and emitters of methane from herds, … Continue reading
Spectator-Observer Partnership | Originally written by Portland Observer EXPECTANT mothers in the south-west will soon have even fewer options when it comes to having their babies, with Warrnambool’s St John of God Hospital reviewing the future of its maternity service due to a … Continue reading
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