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  • Doctor in the house

    Doctor in the house

    Overweight high school drop-outs from low socio-economic backgrounds don’t get to be doctors – especially if they are single mothers. At least that’s what Carolyn Siddell believed. Now a GP registrar at Campaspe Family Practice in Kyneton, Carolyn has discredited that voice of negativity but getting to where she is today was no easy ride.…

  • Earthquake ‘so big and so violent’

    Earthquake ‘so big and so violent’

    ‘Harrowing’ doesn’t begin to describe the destruction left by Papua New Guinea’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook the Southern Highlands, killing more than 100 people and injuring thousands more. Three weeks on from the tragedy, Dr Tana Kiak returned home to Kyneton for the birth of his second child to partner Katy Condliffe, but the…