Coroners Court of Victoria
Newborn cries, quiet groans: The Triple Zero call as influencer lay dying after ‘free birth’
In the months before her son, Axel, was born, Stacey Warnecke expressed a deep fear of birth trauma and was adamant she wanted to have her baby on her own terms.
- Melissa Cunningham
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Clean mental health checks for gun owners should follow Bondi, suicide: coroner
As the Allan government prepares to strengthen the state’s firearms laws, a Victorian coroner wants gun owners to provide medical evidence proving their fitness to hold a licence.
- Annika Smethurst
Ashley’s remains were found in 2019. Investigators hope an inquest will uncover the truth
The remains of the 25-year-old lay undiscovered beneath the ground in Geelong for up to a year until a neighbour went looking for sewer pipes.
- Erin Pearson
Baby R died after a disastrous home birth. Coroner says midwives provided ‘deficient’ care
Two private midwives waited too long to transfer a mother to hospital in Bendigo, starving her newborn of oxygen and causing his death six days after an emergency caesarean.
- Melissa Cunningham
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The glaring and baffling omission in Dezi Freeman case
The differences in the hearings into the deaths of two slain police and their killer were mostly reassuring and respectful, but one threatens to ignite conspiracy theorists.
- Grant McArthur
‘Can you hear us, Thomo?’ Court learns of officers’ final moments in Porepunkah shooting
New details of the horror that occurred in August 2025 – and Freeman’s death in March – were revealed at the Coroners Court of Victoria on Monday.
- Erin Pearson
‘It’s happening to young men across Australia’: Family warns of gambling devastation after Kyle’s suicide
After Kyle Hudson’s suicide, his family said they were tortured by learning betting agencies had flagged him as a high-risk gambler from the age of 18.
- Melissa Cunningham
Kyle was blacklisted by a gambling company not for his own safety, but because he was winning too much
About three years into the grips of a spiralling sports gambling addiction, Kyle Hudson was blacklisted as a “bonus bets abuser” by a multinational betting giant. This was not for his own safety, but because he was winning too much.
- Melissa Cunningham
Kyle tried to limit his gambling seven times. After his death, a coroner asks why Sportsbet didn’t take it as a sign of concern
In the days before his death, Ashley Baker said, her boyfriend became increasingly anxious and distressed, and told her he had lost his entire life savings to gambling.
- Melissa Cunningham
‘His death could have been prevented’: Coroner finds 000 system designed to save Nick failed him
When Nick Panagiotopoulos began to feel sharp pains in his chest, he did what so many other Australians do in an emergency – he called Triple Zero.
- Melissa Cunningham