Bairnsdale Regional Health Service (BRHS) has completed its rollout of ground-breaking Microsoft HoloLens augmented technology across East Gippsland, which is already bringing specialist healthcare much closer to even our remotest communities. Now, Orbost Regional Health (ORH) is considering how satellite internet connectivity that drives HoloLens can be made more mobile in the near future. BRHS...

Bushfire recovery, fundraising and environmental protection topped East Gippsland Shire's annual Australia Day awards last Saturday at Newlands Arm Community Centre.  Sarsfield Community Association's Simon Hof was recognised as the shire's Citizen of the Year for his tireless work in Sarsfield’s ongoing bushfire rebuild; Tilly-rose Hambling, of Orbost, earned the Young Citizen of the Year...

Communications were cut to Dargo over the weekend causing grief for elderly residents and patrons at the town’s hotel. Landlines were out of action until Monday afternoon while mobile phone reception was patchy and internet access inoperable. The Advertiser understands a problem at the Telstra exchange station on the main road into Dargo was to blame. “Landlines had been out all last week and...

Chun Liu took a long road to becoming Bairnsdale Regional Health Service’s (BRHS) 2021-22 Graduate Registered Nurse Award – one that took grit to travel. That road began eight years ago when Chun left her native Beijing on her own, aged 15, to complete secondary school and a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing in Sydney. Then, she headed from Sydney straight to Omeo, then Bairnsdale, to launch her...

Bairnsdale-based Dyers Distribution has recently introduced four A Double units into its large fleet of heavy vehicles.  These 36.5 metre long vehicles are the largest refrigerated High Productivity Freight Vehicle's (HPFV) operating in Victoria. The complex and time sensitive operation involves taking Fresh Cut Salads from Vegco/One Harvest in Bairnsdale and linking up in Dyers Melbourne...