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Regional hospitals are collapsing

Regional hospitals are warning they face ‘inevitable closures’ or widespread job losses following a Victorian-wide mandate to cut spending ahead of this year’s state budget. Leaked internal documents reveal that chief executives of many of

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When does daylight saving end?

Australians in most states will get an extra hour’s sleep when clocks go back an hour at the end of daylight saving time in April. The change will bring sunrise and sunset earlier in the

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Poll: Australia’s “scariest” roads

Australian drivers have voted on the roads they find the “scariest” in each state and territory. In research conducted by Continental Tyres, a road is considered “scary” by motorists due to the number of dangerous

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Greece endures unprecedented triple weather threat: heatwave, winds and dust

Greece is facing one of its most severe and unusual weather events in recent history, with meteorologists describing a rare “triple phenomenon” combining a relentless heatwave, powerful northeasterly winds, and African dust. According to meteorologist Panagiotis Giannopoulos of the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS), the combination of temperatures exceeding 45°C,

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Autonomy

The government intends to allow universities and not the education ministry to set the number of students they will admit each year. That addresses a basic need, the need (for many and varied reasons) for

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Alarm bell

To avoid the errors of the past the current government must move swiftly to address the deficiencies left behind by previous ones. The extent of the natural disasters by which Greece was struck over the

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Theofilus

About 150 years ago, the influential folk artist Theophilus (Theophilus Kefalas – Hatzimichail) was born in the village of Vareia, on the south-eastern tip of the island of Lesvos, overlooking the shores of Asia Minor.

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