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Thousands of doctors across Victoria united on the steps of Melbourne’s Parliament House on October 1, 2026, calling for improvements to their working conditions. Union members have been locked in fractured negotiations with the state government for more than a year.

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00:19this is hard complex work this doctor was was on his 14th hour of that shift does that sound
00:29safe more than that it was this doctor's seventh day of working in a row does that sound safe
00:41we've been through three health ministers we've had countless meetings and we've got to the point
00:47where we still don't have any meaningful um tougher from this government it's been an incredibly
00:53frustrating process um as i said as i've said previously working in a public hospital
00:59systems and the careers that we choose as as public hospital doctors is a challenge but we
01:05the clinical challenge is something we really enjoy that's what we do the job that we do
01:08but what we don't expect and what we can't tolerate is is the conditions under which we work um we
01:15know
01:15from our doctors in training doing 15 hour shifts doing consecutive night shifts in a row not having
01:21breaks not having meal breaks um dealing with very stressful situations the fatigue is an illness
01:27stress the stress is enormous and the burnout is a further
01:31you
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