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Calls for change after 'shocking' hospital discharge

Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has appeared at Victoria's Yoorrook truth-telling inquiry. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

The late-night hospital discharge of an Indigenous woman who had been violently assaulted hours earlier should prompt change in the health-care system, Victoria's truth-telling commission has been told. 

Sissy Austin was running through the Lal Lal state forest, near Ballarat, in February 2023 when she was knocked unconscious with a rock tied to a stick.

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