Melbourne's Hospitals on Brink: Doctors' Pay Dispute Takes a Dramatic Turn The streets outside Melbourne's major hospitals will be eerily quiet next Thursday as thousands of doctors stage their first walk off the job in 20 years, escalating a bitter pay dispute with the state government.
The strike affects several top public hospitals, including the Royal Melbourne and Royal Women's.
Behind this crisis lies a decades long pattern of underinvestment in medical staff, exacerbated by a government that seems more interested in grandstanding on social media than engaging with frontline doctors.