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Powerful disruption By Jamie Salter Ongoing power outages are leading to significant costs for Upper Beaconsfield General Store & Cafe and Over the Road Restaurant owner Stephanie Davey. On top of lost trade, the business can lose up to $4000 worth of stock each time the power goes out. A solution to the outages would be to purchase generators of up to $30,000 each for the two sites. “As a new business we’re still growing, so to then have to fork out this from our own pockets is massive,” Stephanie said. STORY PAGE 2
Tony’s super home solution Garfield resident Tony Fitzgerald is campaigning for affordable housing and says Australian super funds could be the solution. “There is very little to no speculative housing investment in Australia and this is one of the main reasons why housing is so incredibly expensive,” he said. Swinburne’s Centre for Urban Transitions professor of housing studies Terry Burke said the housing affordability crisis has spread from the inner city to the outer suburbs. “The super funds solution is a good idea but it’s dependant of whether they’re willing to accept a lower rate of return rather than maximising profit.” STORY PAGE 5
Popping in for rescue Macclesfield, Nar Nar Goon and Bunyip Fire Brigades worked together to rescue Poppy the mischievous horse - who found herself stuck in a trench. It was a tedious rescue but the horse was recovered unharmed on Saturday 4 June. STORY PAGE 5
Hospital disaster The Victorian opposition has promised to build a second new regional hospital if it wins the November state election and will call on the newly installed Albanese government to chip in. Opposition Leader Matthew Guy on Friday
3 June announced plans to invest $400 million into the new $600 million facility in Warragul, replacing the existing West Gippsland Hospital. The Liberals and Nationals would request $200 million from the federal government to make up the funding shortfall. It comes as Warragul Hospital experienc-
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es an “internal disaster”, with a Code Yellow called due to staff shortages. Six beds have been closed in the medical ward and visitors have been restricted in the aged care ward. “With hospital beds closed, it makes it harder to clear patients in emergency department,
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leading to delays in off-loading ambulances, longer stays in ED and longer wait times to be seen,” West Gippsland Healthcare Group chief executive Dan Weeks said. “We have however, continued with elective surgery.” STORY PAGE 3
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