The Mildura MP talks about her question of Health Minister Foley about the future of the Mildura Base Hospital, the regional health plan released a week later and the need to attract and retain professionals in the electorate.

Around 7,000 applications to enter SA are pending, the Nationals member for the state seat of Lowan says, with South Australians and others seeking to enter Victoria sleeping in their cars, with children and/or pets, awaiting approval

The NSW upper house sat for about an hour before the NSW Liberal-National Coalition government ministers' refusal to attend, citing health grounds, brought the sitting to a grinding halt. The swift end to parliamentary sitting contrasts in Labor's view with a 'too little, too late' approach from the NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall to ensuring farmers have adequate labour for the spring harvest.

Dr Caron chats with Rikki on Flow about the latest species of dung beetle to be introduced in Australia to process cow and sheep dung in new climatic areas of the nation, to either roll it or burrow it underground

A man nicked Jacko the cockie on Saturday night, footage shows, but a mysterious tipoff saw him safely returned on Monday afternoon. Talking with Portarlington police sergeant Nathan Jones, it was something you couldn't have scripted better for an episode of Blue Heelers.