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Hospital suicide: No room in mental health unit

Monday, November 2, 2009

An inquest into the suicide of a patient has heard there was no room for him in the mental health unit of a south-west New South Wales hospital.

Former Win TV cameraman Justin Berkhour was found hanging behind the curtain of a cubicle in the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital emergency department in July 2007.

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Australian Prime Minister should take control over catastrophic oil spill disaster

Prime Minister should take control over catastrophic oil spill disaster

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Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has called on the Prime Minister to remove Martin Ferguson as a Minister and take control over the catastrophic West Atlas oil spill disaster.

On August 23 Minister Ferguson said “the oil spill is not as big as first thought.” He also claimed that “it is evaporating naturally”.

“A full judicial inquiry should have begun from the outset. An independent watchdog would have ensured all the necessary expertise from around the world was employed to prevent and reduce the tragic environmental impacts of the spill,” Senator Brown said.

“Leaving this clean-up operation to the drilling company is not good enough. It’s time for Kevin Rudd to step in and do what the Minister should have done way back in August.”

“This is the Minister that has rewarded the same company with massive new exploration licenses in the middle of this catastrophe,” Senator Brown said.

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