Julia Bergin
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This project was to bring proton therapy to Australia. Alternate plans tell another story (opens the original)
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Sue Bleasel says she is running out of time. She needs a building and a subterranean concrete bunker to house a highly specialised cancer treatment machine. If she can find $22 million Ms Bleasel says she can make it happen. "In two months' time, we've got to have this money in," she said. It's been the 79-year-old's decades' long mission to bring proton therapy, a very precise form of radiation treatment, to Australia so that sick kids can stop travelling overseas for treatment. On paper it loo
03 'This Bloody Machine' | The Empty Chapel (opens the original)
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It would be a game changer if it happened. But the challenges facing a proposed proton cancer treatment centre in Sydney are stacking up. It begs the question: why are an unpaid volunteer and private developer stepping in to provide a life-saving cancer treatment that Australian families have been demanding for years?
01 'This Bloody Machine' | Jewel in the Crown (opens the original)
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Sue Bleasel is running out of time. Her life's work has been to bring a life-saving proton therapy machine to Australia. But with construction about to start, big questions remain.
TRAILER – Introducing 'This Bloody Machine' (opens the original)
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It's a plan so good that everyone wants to believe it. Bring a life-saving cancer machine to Australia so desperate families don't have to travel overseas for treatment. But the plan keeps failing. The latest idea is to build a half-billion-dollar health science precinct in the heart of Sydney to house Australia's first proton therapy machine. It's got some big names backing it, support from a federal politician, and the green light from state government and local council. So why, when reporters
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