'Secret' plans to axe doctors, nurses from Adelaide hospitals: clinicians

UPDATED: A secret savings plan is being prepared by SA Health with consultant firm KordaMentha to axe staff including doctors and nurses from Adelaide hospitals, according to clinicians who say the system cannot cope with any further cuts.

Minister shrugs off ABC funding, job cuts

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has shrugged off the ABC’s budget concerns as the national broadcaster prepares to cut more than 200 jobs.

Never mind the ramping, here's the hospital bed cuts

Days after revealing that ramping outside Adelaide public hospitals had reached a record high 2303 hours in September, the State Government is closing 32 beds at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and 16 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.