A beloved family dog has been electrocuted while playing in a faulty fountain. The dog often played in the small fountain in front of the Evelyn Page retirement village in Orewa, which she passed on her regular walks. But when the dog jumped into the water on January 26, she received an electric shock and died.
February 16, 2017
Two Shepparton businesses are among hundreds of entities suspected to be affected by NBN and landline outages that occurred from Tuesday night to yesterday. Shepparton Villages lost access to its internet on Tuesday night, while Blake’s Florist lost its landline and internet on what is one of its busiest days of the year, Valentine’s Day.
February 16, 2017
After enduring years of horrific sexual and physical abuse, 71 former residents of a home for Indigenous Stolen Generation children in Darwin will be compensated in what their lawyer says is the largest class action in the Northern Territory’s history. They are also the first group across the country to attain compensation from the Federal Government following evidence heard by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which has been holding hearings around Australia for almost four years. The plaintiffs allege physical and sexual assaults by staff at the home from 1946 to 1980, and sought compensation for a failure of duty of care by the defendants, saying they suffered damage and loss as a result. The group’s lawyer Bill Piper said the class action was settled after a week-long mediation in Darwin.
February 16, 2017
Summit Care is set to defend a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) lodged by Borg. Deputy President Dean will hear the application at 10am.
February 16, 2017
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation-Northern Territory Branch and Lee have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) to be determined by Commissioner Bissett in the Fair Work Commission Level 10 NT House 22 Mitchell Street Darwin this morning.
February 16, 2017
Jones Lang Lasalle (Vic) P/L is in a tizz over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) lodged by a staff member (Walker).
February 16, 2017
The Brain Injury Association of Queensland is challenging a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staffer (Leatham).
February 15, 2017
The RSL NSW council says it is prepared to stand aside en masse and have a caretaker put in place while claims it mishandled financial misconduct allegations are investigated – but only if it gets to choose the caretaker. The condition set by the beleaguered NSW leadership has sparked an angry response from some RSL members and deepened a stoush with the league’s national board. A message sent out to RSL members says the state council agreed at a meeting on Monday that it “will voluntarily stand aside on an interim basis pending the results of a board of inquiry into allegations of financial misconduct”.
