A controversial plan for a multi-level tower complex in Mulgrave has upset retirement village neighbours who fear it will ruin their streetscape. The proposed development at 149 Hansworth St included five residential apartment towers between six to 10 storeys and 17 double-storey townhouses. Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal held a three-day hearing from June 26 to 28, with a fourth hearing scheduled on August, 4, 2017 to further consider the merits of the appeal.
July 11, 2017
Victoria’s biggest palliative care provider will ban its hospitals, health centres and clinicians from performing assisted suicides if they are legalised by the Andrews government. St Vincent’s Health Australia chief executive Toby Hall said the Andrews government’s proposed “conservative” euthanasia model was flawed and vulnerable patients would be put at risk by the proposed legislative changes, which he described as a “cheap economic way out”. He accused the government of taking the cheaper option to “give someone a drug and kill them” rather than providing sufficient palliative care for the majority of Victoria’s terminally ill. St Vincent’s is Australia’s biggest Catholic non-for-profit healthcare provider, owning four hospitals in Melbourne, including the publicly funded St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, which has 880 beds, employs 5000 staff and last year treated 54,000 inpatients. It runs a dedicated palliative care facility in the east Melbourne suburb of Kew and jointly operates a palliative care centre at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, which plays a major role in research and education in Victoria. “We will never provide assisted suicide in our hospitals; our clinicians will not provide it and will not be able to provide it and we will not allow it in our aged-care facilities either,” Mr Hall said.
July 11, 2017
Baxter Healthcare Pty Ltd and Portelli have a s.604 (Appeal of decisions) set down before the Fair Work Commission full bench in court 1 – level 6 in Melbourne today at 9am.
July 11, 2017
The Health Services Union and Lifestyle Solutions (Aust) Ltd are in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Lee in hearing room 8 in Hobart.
July 11, 2017
Uniting Care Wesley Bowden must face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-employee (Fowler).
July 11, 2017
Former aged-care and disability worker Heidi May learned to play poker as an 18-year-old at university. A few days ago she beat a field of 717 players at a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas to win $135,098. The now-27-year-old, who hails from Hobart, took out the $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship in the biggest payout of her career. The six-figure sum dwarfed her return of $35,000 from five previous WSOP entries.
July 11, 2017
The Community and Public Sector Union and Department of Human Services are in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) arm-wrestle before Commissioner Johns in conference room 2 in the ACT.
July 11, 2017
Presbyterian Church of Victoria Social Services Committee has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) on foot before Deputy President Hamilton in court 3 & conference room B – level 6 in Melbourne (Boyce).
