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Public hospital doctors in Ballarat
and Bendigo made history as they
become the first regional Victorian
doctors on record to stop work
and gather outside their own
hospitals as part of protected
industrial action.
LISTEN
→
Hundreds of regional
doctors stopped work on
3 September to bring their
burnout, poor conditions
and low morale to the
attention of the State
Government.
READ
→
Public hospitals strike
at Monash and Eastern
in their fight for better
working conditions
and pay.
LISTEN
→
For the first time in
two decades, public
hospital doctors walk
off the job.
LISTEN
→
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