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Ben Silvester
Victorian state correspondent
Correspondent covering key issues across regional Victoria, based in Melbourne.
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'A decade of decline': Report reveals Victorian ED healthcare crisis
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'A decade of decline': Report reveals Victorian ED healthcare crisis
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'Finally': Nine-month surgery wait over for opioid addicted patient
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'Finally': Nine-month surgery wait over for opioid addicted patient
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Sexual assaults at record highs in Australia and most know their attacker
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Sexual assaults at record highs in Australia and most know their attacker
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'Halting the homicide timeline': how family violence escalates to murder
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'Halting the homicide timeline': how family violence escalates to murder
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Physio overturns work ban despite sexual assault charges
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Physio overturns work ban despite sexual assault charges
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Victoria's regional housing targets: will your area boom or stagnate?
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Victoria's regional housing targets: will your area boom or stagnate?
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'Where's our PET scanner?': cancer patients suffer from project delay
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'Where's our PET scanner?': cancer patients suffer from project delay
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Regional pain as rental housing drops for first time in 25 years
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Regional pain as rental housing drops for first time in 25 years
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'Looking to bleed us': Victoria's hospitals served with 'brutal' budgets
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'Looking to bleed us': Victoria's hospitals served with 'brutal' budgets
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TAFE workers strike in Bendigo, Warrnambool and Wodonga in statewide action
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TAFE workers strike in Bendigo, Warrnambool and Wodonga in statewide action
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