Friday, January 22, 2016

Baby given to wrong mum at Wollongong Hospital and other top stories.

  • Baby given to wrong mum at Wollongong Hospital

    Baby given to wrong mum at Wollongong Hospital
    NSW: Newborn one of seven handed to the wrong mother for breastfeeding during the past four years. A baby at Wollongong Hospital was one of seven handed to the wrong mother for breastfeeding during the past four years, NSW Health has revealed. The Wollongong baby bungle – reported as an “expressed breast-milk error” – happened in 2013, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District director of clinical operations Carolyn Cooper confirmed on Friday.“The error was discovered within minu..
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  • Glad they are a Kennedy

    Glad they are a Kennedy
    This month is an important one for a Wollongong business that works with companies to develop their people and practices. CTPM was established on January 1, 1996 and has helped 81 companies in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia to get the most from their people and processes. Anniversary: Some of the CTPM Wollongong team Nelson Rodrigues, Zoe Zhou, Chris Polzot, Juan Medina (back row) and Debbie Kennedy, Elsie Rowan, Ross Kennedy and Samantha Rowan..
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  • Illawarra weather: storms and rain set to hit for second day

    Illawarra weather: storms and rain set to hit for second day
    UPDATES: Illawarra warned to brace for heavy rain and damaging winds. 5pm: It was the storm that never arrived. Despite forecast potentially severe thunderstorms, the Illawarra appears to have escaped unscathed on Friday. The weather bureau has cancelled its severe storm warning for the region. Consistent rain has fallen across the Illawarra – 7 millimetres has fallen at Bellambi Point since 3pm, while Albion Park picked up 5.4mm during the same period.3pm: A severe thunderstorm w..
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  • State of the Nation | Saturday, January 23, 2016

    State of the Nation | Saturday, January 23, 2016
    Morning headlines from around regional Australia and beyond. A whip around Australia and the world for your morning catchup on the latest news.STATE OF THE NATION► BENDIGO: “Shock, disbelief ... it was sickening. I honestly felt like throwing up. You just feel numb.” This was mother Skye Whiteman’s reaction when she was told her daughter, Brydee, had a rare form of leukaemia. Brydee was just five and a half months old when she was diagnosed with the aggressive cancer. “The leukaem..
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  • Man dies after being struck by lightning as wild weather batters ...

    Man dies after being struck by lightning as wild weather batters ...
    A man has died after being struck by lightning in the Adelaide Hills as violent thunderstorms roll over the region, causing flash flooding.Police have confirmed they were called to Mount Barker, in the Adelaide Hills, after the 39-year-old man was struck by lightning.READ MORE: Man dies after being struck by lightning in Adelaide Hills The storm rolls in over Adelaide's Seacliff. (Supplied, is Bec Boltje) Paramedics are at the location, which is believed to be a college, but the man died at the..
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  • Even before the auction action begins for 2016, one industry insider ...

    Even before the auction action begins for 2016, one industry insider ...
    Even before the auction action begins for 2016, one industry insider says some markets are cooling. Picture: Alison WyndTELL ’EM they’re dreaming.It’s the sentence plenty of potential buyers could be saying this year as sellers suffer from price point jetlag after 2015 dished up a hot real estate market in some corners of the country.Just six months ago when prices were riding high in Sydney and Melbourne, sellers were setting the price agenda. But those vendors who took their time deciding to s..
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  • Aerial shark patrols extended for North Coast beaches

    Aerial shark patrols extended for North Coast beaches
    PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for the North Coast, Chris Gulaptis, has announced aerial surveillance of beaches will continue until Easter due to shark activity.“The current surveillance was due to wrap up on Australia Day,” he said.“It will now continue every Saturday and Sunday and every day of the Easter long weekend.“Having that extra eye in the sky over our beaches during this time will give swimmers and surfers extra confidence when hitting the water.”In addition to the extra surveillance sched..
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  • A sting in the South Coast's tale

    A teen bitten by a shark among dozens of marine-related calls for help across region. A teenager bitten by a shark and another stung by a blue-ringed octopus are among dozens of marine-related calls for help received by paramedics across the Illawarra and South Coast.NSW Ambulance data has revealed paramedics attended almost 180 incidents involving patients injured by marine life statewide between September 1, 2013 and December 31 last year.Thirty of those triple-0 calls were reco..
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  • The week in pictures - January 23, 2016 | Photos

    The week in pictures - January 23, 2016 | Photos
    WALLENDBEEN: A fire that burnt through 130 acres on a Wallendbeen property is believed to have started by a spark from passing trains about 5pm on Monday. Photo Cootamundra RFS.ARMIDALE: 12 motorcycle riders from Armidale are preparing to travel to Dubbo in April to participate in reclaiming the world record for largest all-female motorcycle meet. Photo Armidale Express.BALLARAT: Fraser Ridgeway, 7, and Ella Ridgeway, 9, cool off at Creswick's St George's Lake. BALLARAT:Tess Forbes enjoys an ic..
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  • Wildcats curse continues

    Wildcats curse continues
    Illawarra's struggles in Perth roll on, but with both teams on track to make play-offs, the Hawks could get the chance to break their drought on the NBL's biggest stage. BIG GAME EXPERIENCE: The Perth Wildcats are no strangers to competing for silverware in the NBL. Picture: GETTY IMAGESAs good as sweeping the defending premiers was, New Zealand must have felt for the Illawarra Hawks as Thursday’s 22nd straight defeat in Perth would have been just disheartening.How ever hard they ..
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