Lobethal & District Aged Homes Inc is preparing to defend a (s.372 – Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Senior Deputy President O’Callaghan in Conference Room 6a – Level 6 in Adelaide (Clarke).
March 17, 2017
Chris Rex’s remaining time as the well remunerated boss of Ramsay Health Care looks sure to be action-packed. Rex announced last month that he was leaving the private hospital operator after nine years in the top job. For now, Ramsay chairman Michael Siddle’s succession plans are as clear as the reasons for ever rising private health premiums. Sensing an opportunity is Labor senator Sam Dastyari, who has evidently decided it’s a good moment for his red house razzle dazzle. Yesterday, while Rex was apparently overseas selling his recent half-year results to investors, Dastyari took to social media for a Daily Show-style take-down of Rex. Rex’s crime? Being a paid a lot and, apparently, refusing to attend a Senate committee this week that will look at why costs for replacement knees, hips and pacemakers are so expensive in the private system. “Mr Rex. Mate. Bloke to bloke, come and have a chat. Come to our hearings,” said Dastyari to the camera. Ramsay’s people said characterising Rex’s no-show as a “refusal” isn’t fair. They said no official invitation from Dastyari’s office was made directly to Rex, only a call last week through to the company’s switchboard followed by an email. Well, any confusion seems to have been cleared up by Dastyari’s video. Rex is very much invited to the committee, which meets in Canberra today. The Ramsay boss — who advised the ASX on Friday that he had sold $35m worth of his stock, as his CFO Bruce Soden revealed he had sold $7.5m — seems to be in Europe at the moment. So that won’t happen. But if Rex refuses to attend future gatherings, Dastyari has made it known the Labor and Greens majority committee consider flexing its powers to make a summons. Other healthcare bosses who could also be summoned include Bupa boss Dwayne Crombie, Healthscope’s Robert Cooke and Medibank’s Craig Drummond. No word yet on any potential summons of NIB chief executive Mark Fitzgibbon, who as it happens is the brother of Labor shadow minister Joel Fitzgibbon.
March 17, 2017
Australian Retirement Holdings Pty Ltd has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to defend before Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney (Priest).
March 17, 2017
Their act may not have been a big hit at bingo nights, but the naughty nannies are gearing up for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Thomas Jaspers, who plays Edith Vale in ‘A Visit with Nan in a Caravan’, said that being raised in a nursing home gave him a rare insight into elderly women.
March 17, 2017
Vineyard Medical Group P/L has made a s.217 (Application to vary an agreement to remove an ambiguity or uncertainty) to Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
March 17, 2017
Inclusive Support Services INC is facing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) instigated by a staff member (Sharaga).
March 17, 2017
Quad Services Pty Ltd is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders at Level 3, 237 Wharf Road, Newcastle at 9.30am (Cohen).
March 17, 2017
A crooked accountant who defrauded clients of more than $2 million and then gambled most of it away at Crown casino has been jailed for at least four years. Kaylene Maree Hussen ripped off 229 individual clients and five companies between 2010 and 2014 using several methods of deception at her Geelong West business PTS Tax and Accounting, the County Court heard. Her frauds included altering business activity statements and retaining tax credits, preparing bogus tax returns or inflating genuine ones and then keeping people’s refunds, and obtaining cash loans from banks for fictitious investments. “A number of your victims were vulnerable people such as the aged and disabled, (those) not with high incomes and were dependent on monies lost and their relationships with you,” Judge Bourke said on Tuesday, before formalising the sentence on Wednesday.
