Cost of work to reinstate SH25a “in the tens of millions”.

Exclusive: Less than 24 hours after launching a new service for its customers, Optus is under pressure to make changes to the name for its plans for an app-based service allowing customers to get short-term improvements in service and speed on their mobile and NBN networks.

The initiative, called internet boost and mobile boost, allows Optus customers to pay $5 for a 24-hour improvement in home NBN speeds, or $2 for one hour's improvement and priority on the Optus mobile network.

But it's the name of the program that is contested, with Boost Mobile threatening legal proceedings if Optus does not immediately change the name of its product in all marketing.

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Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton told 9news.com.au: "Boost Mobile has not authorised Optus to use our Boost brand, and we are definitely not collaborating with Optus."

Boost has been long established in the Australian market, offering generous data plans at low costs on the full Telstra network.

Known for their aggressive approach to branding and marketing, the use of the term "mobile boost" as the product name for Optus is what's causing the concern.

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"Optus has this morning received legal correspondence giving them until 5pm today (Friday) to respond and stop using Boost in its marketing, or otherwise legal proceedings will commence for trademark infringement," Adderton added,

"Boost Mobile is a local, Australian-born success story which, over the last 22 years, has built a telco brand that is now globally recognised and respected."

An Optus spokesperson said the company had received the letter from Boost and is "considering" it.

"We have received a letter raising concerns on behalf of Boost Telecom," the spokesperson said.

"Optus is considering this, but does not consider that any customer could confuse Boost Telecom with Optus."

Optus has endured a shocking last 12 months, with one of Australia's largest data breaches affecting 9.8 million customers.

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The families of two South Australians who were killed in a light plane crash in a remote area of the Philippines have told of their heartbreak.

Simon Chipperfield and Karthi Santhanam, both from Adelaide, were on board the Cessna 340 when it crashed into a volcano on Saturday.

The six-seater aircraft was bound for the capital Manila when it lost contact with air traffic control after it left Bicol International Airport in Albay province.

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Chipperfield, Santhanam, a pilot and a crew member were all confirmed dead, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said.

Two Filipino soldiers also died in an accident while gathering supplies for the search mission.

The families of Chipperfield and Santhanam issued a joint statement thanking rescue teams for their efforts.

"Simon and Karthi were kind, intelligent and deeply loved husbands, fathers, sons and brothers," the statement read.

"Our hearts are broken by our devastating loss; both had so much more to give.

"We offer deep gratitude to the brave Philippine search and rescue teams and to the Australian and Philippine governments for their ongoing support.

"We are strengthened by the outpouring of love and support from around the world."

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The two Australians had been working for a geothermal firm based in the Philippines.

The plane crashed on the side of Mount Mayon, a restive volcano which last erupted in 2018.

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Finks bikies celebrated what they believed was the successful murder of a rival Mongols gang member who was shot four times in the head and chest, jurors have heard.

Sione Hokafonu is standing trial for the attempted murder of Rocco Curra, who miraculously survived the shooting after being lured to a suburban street in Bulleen and shot at a dozen times on August 1, 2019.

It's alleged Hokafonu was one of two gunmen driven to the scene by Poiva Sita, who is also charged with attempted murder.

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Sita's brother, Joseph Opapo, is charged with intentionally causing serious injury in circumstances of gross violence, over an allegation he drove the pair from the scene in a second getaway vehicle after the first was set on fire.

All three have pleaded not guilty and deny any involvement in the shooting.

It's alleged the ambush was a hot topic of conversation among Finks bikies and other associates at their clubhouse in the following days.

When asked why Curra had been shot, Hokafonu allegedly replied "blood for blood or an eye for an eye", the prosecution's key witness told the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday.

The man, who gave evidence from an undisclosed remote location, cannot be identified.

"There was talk amongst everyone that they thought he was dead," he said.

"Hence the celebratory drinks."

The man is expected to face cross-examination next week by the three accused's lawyers, who argue his claims should be heavily scrutinised.

Jurors have already seen CCTV footage from nearby homes on the night, showing a stolen silver BMW hatchback stopping in front of Curra's car.

Footage shows two men jump from the front and back passenger seats and each fire a series of shots – 11 or 12 in total – into Curra's vehicle.

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He was struck four times in the head, neck and chest.

Curra attempted to drive away but crashed into a tree, and then stumbled to a nearby home where residents called emergency services.

He spent three weeks in hospital after the shooting, which he was lucky to survive, prosecutor Neill Hutton said.

Curra was targeted only because of his association with the Mongols Motorcycle Club, it's alleged.

There had been a series of incidents between the two clubs in the lead-up, starting with an incident at the Sporting Globe pub at Fountain Gate Shopping Centre where a Mongols associate threw a salt shaker at a television during a State of Origin rugby league match.

Members of the two clubs then scuffled, and it's alleged a Finks bikie took a "Support Your Local Mongols" jumper belonging to a club associate as a "trophy".

Hokafonu was shot in the foot days after that interaction, in an alleged act of retaliation for the jumper incident.

Another man, Tavita Sua, is accused of being the second gunman to fire shots at Curra.

His case is being heard separately.

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When Michael Suckling was jailed for driving a car that killed his friend he weighed 82 kilograms.

Three years later, after suffering poor mental health and being medicated for severe pain due to injuries suffered in the crash, the 41-year-old Aboriginal man died in his cell weighing 199 kilograms.

A state coroner is investigating the circumstances leading up to his March 2021 death and the quality of healthcare given to Suckling, in an inquest in Melbourne that began on Friday.

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Suckling grew up in Gippsland and worked as a plasterer.

He was in a relationship with his childhood sweetheart and had two children.

However, drugs later wreaked havoc on his life, counsel assisting Sharon Lacy told the Coroners Court.

On January 6, 2018, Suckling was driving a car that crashed at Castlemaine, killing one of his friends and injuring another.

He was convicted for this and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Suckling was hospitalised after the crash and suffered multiple injuries, including rib and spinal bone fractures.

Lacey said he entered the prison system in a great deal of pain.

He struggled to move around due to his injuries, was medicated for the pain and also suffered from depression and PTSD.

Suckling was moved from Metropolitan Remand Centre to Port Phillip Prison and transferred to Ravenhall about seven months before he died.

Between 2018 and his death in 2021, Lacy said he had gained 117 kilograms and was considered morbidly obese.

His body was found by his cellmate on March 7, 2021, after the morning headcount.

He died from an enlarged heart connected to his obesity.

Lacy said the inquest will consider why his heart stopped and the circumstances leading up to his death.

"The inquest will hear evidence in relation to the excessive and rapid weight gain Michael experienced in the three years he was incarcerated," she told the court.

She said the quality of care, treatment and supervision of Suckling in custody will be investigated, as recommended by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Lacy said the evidence would reveal important philosophical and structural questions about rights, freedoms, and responsibilities of prisoners and custodians.

"Including, what responsibility does the government, the prisoner operator and the prison health provider each have to intervene to stop a prisoner from eating themselves to death?

"Are the entities breaching a prisoner's human rights if they try to stop it or intervene in their canteen buyer? Are they providing insufficient care if they don't intervene?

"And further, what does the equivalency of care principle look like for an Aboriginal man who has complex health issues, is obese, increasingly unwell and suffers from both mobility and mental health issues."

The inquest before coroner Leveasque Peterson continues.

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"I don't feel like I've started yet."

An induction into a hall of fame usually signals a time for reflection. But for author, ad executive, TV presenter and now 3AW presenter Russel Howcroft, the 'power of ideas' is simply driving him on.

Howcroft was yesterday inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame. The 58-year-old has spent decades at the top in advertising and media, and more recently prominent on ABC's The Gruen Transfer and as one half of 3AW's number one breakfast show, where he has just re-signed for another four years.

When asked what he attributes his 30 years of advertising and media success to, Howcroft notes two things: a sense of barely having started yet and his mother.

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When asked what he attributes his 30 years of advertising and media success to, Howcroft notes two things: a sense of barely having started yet and his mother.

"I don't feel like I've started yet. A sense of I haven't even started yet maybe contributes to it," he told 9news.com.au.

"And my mother. She has a generous spirit and she attacks everyday with vigour and vim."

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Howcroft tries to attack every day in the same way.

But the underlying passion for Howcroft and his career is the interest in how society works.

"I'm interested in the power of ideas, having a broad point of view about media, the role of ideas, how the money flow works, how all these things influence how we generally operate as a society," he said.

"This is the big subject matter I've always enjoyed."

This influenced Howcroft's enjoyment as a panellist on the Gruen Transfer as it approaches the "good, bad and ugly of advertising and how it impacts us all".

"The bigger picture and broader analysis is something I've always been interested in," he said.

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It is easy to be stumped when asked what your key career highlights or stand-out memories are so Howcroft references the advertising idea of recency where you're in the market to buy something and the brand you have seen most recently is highly considered.

Therefore the stand out for Howcroft today was clearly being inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame on Thursday night.

"So the thing that has stood out most recently is I was put in the hall of fame," Howcroft laughs.

Other career highlights Howcroft mentioned include 3AW breakfast winning an AACTA, Gruen Transfer winning a Logie, and winning an agency of the year award.

But it isn't just winning awards for Howcroft: The Million Dollar Vax campaign he co-headed in 2021 was more than just advertising, it had a greater impact on Australian society.

"We gave away $1 million to someone who was randomly selected who was vaccinated during the October period," he explained.

"We can prove that we sped up the COVID-19 vaccination rate in Australia.

"For me, that's advertising working at its best."

Howcroft said although pride is not an attribute we should aspire to, that campaign he is deeply proud of it.

"We did that very quickly with some amazing philanthropy," he said.

"We increased first dose vaccination by 9.8 per cent around the country. The promotion rate was bigger than the McDonald's Monopoly promotion.

"That to me is indicative of what you can do when you get advertising right."

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Over 30 years, Howcroft has seen it all but the most significant change in the advertising and media industry is the complexity.

"When I say it was easy, that's a little unfair, but it was pretty easy," he said.

"The simplicity of making a TV commercial and putting it on air and everyone saw it that is no longer the case.

"On the media side, there was a different form of power. All media has been disaggregated and advertising has as well."

Howcroft said it is far more difficult to find the audience now as it breaks into different groups from video on demand to social media.

"It is far more difficult to find an aggregated audience because in the end that's the game," he said.

Now 3AW is his focus where again he feels he "has just started" and a place that fulfils his love of ideas – an "idea factory" he calls the radio station.

"It's been two-and-a-half years but it has been so interesting and yes I feel I have just started but there is plenty more to do there," he said.

"There is an incredible legacy to be protected and hopefully plenty of growth to come."

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Perth hospital staff missed the signs a seven-year-old girl was dying of sepsis because of the pressures caused by "inadequate" staffing, a coroner has found.

Aishwarya Aswath died on Easter Saturday 2021, hours after presenting to the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department with a fever and unusually cold hands.

She had been left in a waiting room for more than 90 minutes, despite her parents pleading with staff – who they described as rude and dismissive – to escalate care as her condition deteriorated.

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An inquest into her death was told there was intense demand on staff who missed repeated opportunities to identify the seriousness of her condition.

Premier Mark McGowan has insisted the hospital was not understaffed on the night Aishwarya died because it had its full rostered complement.

But in her long-awaited written findings on Friday, Deputy State Coroner Sarah Linton said while that was "technically" correct, it had been made apparent the roster had been inadequate to deal with demand.

"Aishwarya's parents brought their daughter into hospital because they knew she needed help," Linton said.

"But due to the pressures on them, the medical and nursing staff missed the signs that she was critically ill from sepsis and failed to rescue her.

"It really is as simple, and as tragic, as that."

Linton did not make any individual adverse comment against the staff members involved in Aishwarya's treatment.

The coroner has formally backed several recommendations put forward by the Australian Nurses Federation.

These include the priority implementation of nurse to patient ratios without waiting for an industrial agreement between the union and state government to be registered.

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Linton has also recommended enhanced waiting room protocols to provide better monitoring of signs of sepsis, better access to digital record-keeping tools and the staffing of a standalone resuscitation team in the Perth Children's Hospital ED.

She noted there were multiple opportunities on the night where clinicians could have escalated Aishwarya's care, had they stopped to consider her symptoms more closely and listen to the repeated concerns being raised by her parents.

The "most significant" arose when junior waiting room nurse Tahnee Vining observed Aishwarya to be grunting in pain with an elevated heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature.

Vining did not consider sepsis, despite Aishwarya meeting the documented threshold for further investigation.

The nurse was unable to monitor Aishwarya because she was repeatedly called away on other duties, including assisting a patient resuscitation.

Had proper treatment been initiated during that time, there was a "small possibility" Aishwarya's life might have been saved, Linton said.

"That chance, albeit statistically small, was enormously significant to Aishwarya's family."

A nurse had raised concerns in an email to their union in March 2021 about the hospital's staffing levels, and Linton said it appeared then-health minister Roger Cook had also been generally informed of the situation.

"It is deeply concerning to then see these events play out only a few days later, exactly as the nurse had feared," the coroner said.

"The background points to systemic issues surrounding the resourcing of the ED, rather than the behaviour of individuals in this case."

While the state government had implemented various changes to improve Perth Children's Hospital, it was too late for Aishwarya and her family.

"It shouldn't take the death of a beloved little girl for… the government to stop and consider what more it can do, and how much more money it should spend, to keep children safe when they visit our specialist children's hospital," Linton said.

"There is no point in having a state of the art facility, if the staff working within it are stretched beyond capacity and parents lose their trust and faith in them."

Linton paid tribute to the "grace and dignity" of Aishwarya's father Aswath Chavittupara and mother Prasitha Sasidharan, adding that she understood why they would "never forgive" the health system.

TIMELINE IN THE HOSPITAL DEATH OF AISHWARYA ASWATH

2021

Thursday, April 1

• Seven-year-old Aishwarya attends the last day of the school term. She plays soccer with her father Aswath in the evening and they walk to get icecream.

Friday, April 2

• Aishwarya complains of a headache. She vomits several times. Her parents give her Panadol and fluids.

Saturday, April 3

• Aishwarya wakes up complaining of limb soreness. She appears very weak and suffers diarrhoea but manages to have some cereal and hydrolyte.
• 5.00pm – Aishwarya's mother Prasitha notices the girl's hands are unusually cold. The family decide to go to hospital
• 5.32pm – Aishwarya and her family arrive at the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department. She is observed through a screen by a triage nurse
• 5.35pm – She is given a triage score of four – the second-least serious category – recommending treatment within 60 minutes. The family enter a waiting room
• 5.41pm – Prasitha expresses concerns about white spots on Aishwarya's eyes. Junior doctor Tony Teo inspects the girl but does not make any notes. Dr Teo later testifies he didn't have access to the triage notes and was unaware of her other symptoms.
• 5.51pm – Prasitha again seeks help. Registered nurse Tahnee Vining inspects Aishwarya, noting she has an elevated heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature of 38.8C and is grunting in pain. The nurse records family concern as "zero". She does not consider sepsis despite being required to under hospital protocols. She is called away to help other patients.
• 6.43pm – Ms Vining completes a verbal handover with nurse Caitlin Wills, recommending pain relief and fluids.
• 7.00pm – Laying down on the waiting room couch, Aishwarya tells her parents she feels like she is falling. Her speech is increasingly faint.
• 7.05pm – Aishwarya is assessed by Ms Wills. She observes the girl to have a blank stare. She is floppy and unable to lift her arms or her neck.
• 7.09pm – ED consultant William Hollaway sees Aishwarya and moves her immediately to a treatment pod.
• 7.18pm – The rapidly deteriorating girl is moved by stretcher to a resuscitation area. She goes into cardiac arrest. Doctors try desperately to save her.
• 9.04pm – Aishwarya is pronounced dead. A post-mortem later identifies the cause of death as a sepsis infection related to group A streptococcus.

Monday, April 6

• Then-health minister Roger Cook requests an urgent briefing on the circumstances of Aishwarya's death after her parents tell media their concerns were ignored by hospital staff.

Wednesday, May 12

• Cook apologises on behalf of the state government, saying Aishwarya should have received better care. He claims staff shortages did not contribute to the incident and fends off calls for his resignation.

Thursday, May 20

• Healthcare unions express fury after junior staff at Perth Children's Hospital are referred to the medical watchdog over Aishwarya's death.

Tuesday, May 25

• Staff rally outside Perth Children's Hospital, urging the government to act on safety and resourcing concerns.

Tuesday, November 9

• An independent report finds hospital staff were "exhausted and demoralised" and waiting areas "suboptimally staffed" in the lead-up to Aishwarya's death.

2022

Thursday, August 11

• Perth Children's Hospital boss Aresh Anwar resigns weeks before an inquest begins into Aishwarya's death.

Friday, September 2

• Deputy State Coroner Sarah Linton concludes the inquest after hearing evidence from more than 20 witnesses.

2023

Friday, February 24

• Linton finds there is a small chance Aishwarya's life could have been saved. She finds staff missed the signs of sepsis because of pressures caused by "inadequate" staffing.

Perth hospital staff missed the signs a seven-year-old girl was dying of sepsis because of the pressures caused by "inadequate" staffing, a coroner has found.

Aishwarya Aswath died on Easter Saturday 2021, hours after presenting to the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department with a fever and unusually cold hands.

She had been left in a waiting room for more than 90 minutes, despite her parents pleading with staff – who they described as rude and dismissive – to escalate care as her condition deteriorated.

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An inquest into her death was told there was intense demand on staff who missed repeated opportunities to identify the seriousness of her condition.

Premier Mark McGowan has insisted the hospital was not understaffed on the night Aishwarya died because it had its full rostered complement.

But in her long-awaited written findings on Friday, Deputy State Coroner Sarah Linton said while that was "technically" correct, it had been made apparent the roster had been inadequate to deal with demand.

"Aishwarya's parents brought their daughter into hospital because they knew she needed help," Linton said.

"But due to the pressures on them, the medical and nursing staff missed the signs that she was critically ill from sepsis and failed to rescue her.

"It really is as simple, and as tragic, as that."

Linton did not make any individual adverse comment against the staff members involved in Aishwarya's treatment.

The coroner has formally backed several recommendations put forward by the Australian Nurses Federation.

These include the priority implementation of nurse to patient ratios without waiting for an industrial agreement between the union and state government to be registered.

READ MORE: Small businesses plead for support amid cost of living crisis

Linton has also recommended enhanced waiting room protocols to provide better monitoring of signs of sepsis, better access to digital record-keeping tools and the staffing of a standalone resuscitation team in the Perth Children's Hospital ED.

She noted there were multiple opportunities on the night where clinicians could have escalated Aishwarya's care, had they stopped to consider her symptoms more closely and listen to the repeated concerns being raised by her parents.

The "most significant" arose when junior waiting room nurse Tahnee Vining observed Aishwarya to be grunting in pain with an elevated heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature.

Vining did not consider sepsis, despite Aishwarya meeting the documented threshold for further investigation.

The nurse was unable to monitor Aishwarya because she was repeatedly called away on other duties, including assisting a patient resuscitation.

Had proper treatment been initiated during that time, there was a "small possibility" Aishwarya's life might have been saved, Linton said.

"That chance, albeit statistically small, was enormously significant to Aishwarya's family."

A nurse had raised concerns in an email to their union in March 2021 about the hospital's staffing levels, and Linton said it appeared then-health minister Roger Cook had also been generally informed of the situation.

"It is deeply concerning to then see these events play out only a few days later, exactly as the nurse had feared," the coroner said.

"The background points to systemic issues surrounding the resourcing of the ED, rather than the behaviour of individuals in this case."

While the state government had implemented various changes to improve Perth Children's Hospital, it was too late for Aishwarya and her family.

"It shouldn't take the death of a beloved little girl for… the government to stop and consider what more it can do, and how much more money it should spend, to keep children safe when they visit our specialist children's hospital," Linton said.

"There is no point in having a state of the art facility, if the staff working within it are stretched beyond capacity and parents lose their trust and faith in them."

Linton paid tribute to the "grace and dignity" of Aishwarya's father Aswath Chavittupara and mother Prasitha Sasidharan, adding that she understood why they would "never forgive" the health system.

TIMELINE IN THE HOSPITAL DEATH OF AISHWARYA ASWATH

2021

Thursday, April 1

• Seven-year-old Aishwarya attends the last day of the school term. She plays soccer with her father Aswath in the evening and they walk to get icecream.

Friday, April 2

• Aishwarya complains of a headache. She vomits several times. Her parents give her Panadol and fluids.

Saturday, April 3

• Aishwarya wakes up complaining of limb soreness. She appears very weak and suffers diarrhoea but manages to have some cereal and hydrolyte.
• 5.00pm – Aishwarya's mother Prasitha notices the girl's hands are unusually cold. The family decide to go to hospital
• 5.32pm – Aishwarya and her family arrive at the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department. She is observed through a screen by a triage nurse
• 5.35pm – She is given a triage score of four – the second-least serious category – recommending treatment within 60 minutes. The family enter a waiting room
• 5.41pm – Prasitha expresses concerns about white spots on Aishwarya's eyes. Junior doctor Tony Teo inspects the girl but does not make any notes. Dr Teo later testifies he didn't have access to the triage notes and was unaware of her other symptoms.
• 5.51pm – Prasitha again seeks help. Registered nurse Tahnee Vining inspects Aishwarya, noting she has an elevated heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature of 38.8C and is grunting in pain. The nurse records family concern as "zero". She does not consider sepsis despite being required to under hospital protocols. She is called away to help other patients.
• 6.43pm – Ms Vining completes a verbal handover with nurse Caitlin Wills, recommending pain relief and fluids.
• 7.00pm – Laying down on the waiting room couch, Aishwarya tells her parents she feels like she is falling. Her speech is increasingly faint.
• 7.05pm – Aishwarya is assessed by Ms Wills. She observes the girl to have a blank stare. She is floppy and unable to lift her arms or her neck.
• 7.09pm – ED consultant William Hollaway sees Aishwarya and moves her immediately to a treatment pod.
• 7.18pm – The rapidly deteriorating girl is moved by stretcher to a resuscitation area. She goes into cardiac arrest. Doctors try desperately to save her.
• 9.04pm – Aishwarya is pronounced dead. A post-mortem later identifies the cause of death as a sepsis infection related to group A streptococcus.

Monday, April 6

• Then-health minister Roger Cook requests an urgent briefing on the circumstances of Aishwarya's death after her parents tell media their concerns were ignored by hospital staff.

Wednesday, May 12

• Cook apologises on behalf of the state government, saying Aishwarya should have received better care. He claims staff shortages did not contribute to the incident and fends off calls for his resignation.

Thursday, May 20

• Healthcare unions express fury after junior staff at Perth Children's Hospital are referred to the medical watchdog over Aishwarya's death.

Tuesday, May 25

• Staff rally outside Perth Children's Hospital, urging the government to act on safety and resourcing concerns.

Tuesday, November 9

• An independent report finds hospital staff were "exhausted and demoralised" and waiting areas "suboptimally staffed" in the lead-up to Aishwarya's death.

2022

Thursday, August 11

• Perth Children's Hospital boss Aresh Anwar resigns weeks before an inquest begins into Aishwarya's death.

Friday, September 2

• Deputy State Coroner Sarah Linton concludes the inquest after hearing evidence from more than 20 witnesses.

2023

Friday, February 24

• Linton finds there is a small chance Aishwarya's life could have been saved. She finds staff missed the signs of sepsis because of pressures caused by "inadequate" staffing.

A driver has been hospitalised after a car and a truck carrying hay collided on a Victorian highway, igniting a grassfire in a neighbouring paddock.

The driver of the car has been rushed to Geelong University Public Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and the fire has been put out after the crash on the Midland Highway in Meredith about 1.35pm.

The car was completely gutted by the fire, which was sparked after it collided head-on with the truck.

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The blaze spread to a paddock beside the highway, prompting authorities to warn locals to stay informed about the risk.

Six firetrucks attended the fire, which was put out by 2.20pm.

Police have warned there will be traffic delays in the area for some time.

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A driver has been hospitalised after a car and a truck carrying hay collided on a Victorian highway, igniting a grassfire in a neighbouring paddock.

The driver of the car has been rushed to Geelong University Public Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and the fire has been put out after the crash on the Midland Highway in Meredith about 1.35pm.

The car was completely gutted by the fire, which was sparked after it collided head-on with the truck.

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The blaze spread to a paddock beside the highway, prompting authorities to warn locals to stay informed about the risk.

Six firetrucks attended the fire, which was put out by 2.20pm.

Police have warned there will be traffic delays in the area for some time.

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