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A permanent police presence should be established in the South Australian outback town of Fregon where outback nurse Gayle Woodford was brutally raped and murdered, a coroner has recommended.
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Outspoken magistrate David Whittle will become SA’s next state coroner when incumbent Mark Johns steps down later this year, InDaily can reveal.
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The South Australian Coroner has lashed the nursing care given to an elderly man in a country hospital with expert evidence declaring his death almost certainly preventable.
SA Health is warning that the overuse of laxatives can cause horrific bowel conditions – and doesn’t reduce fat – fearing the release of a coroner’s report this week may encourage anorexia sufferers to stockpile the medication.
The Coroner has found that adequate mental health services could have potentially prevented the deaths of two young Adelaide women, and described the State Government’s policy failures in the area as “scandalous”.
Former Socceroo Steve Herczeg suffered a “cruelly painful” death after an unknown person wrongly connected his urinary catheter to an oxygen supply, bursting his bladder, an inquest has found.
