A forty-five-year-old ice addict grandmother “felt sick” about stealing a dying woman’s credit cards but did it anyway so she and her co-accused could buy groceries to swap them for more drugs, a court has heard. Silvia Schreuder was given a three-year good behaviour bond and fined $700 in Gosford Local Court today for stealing 62-year-old aged care nurse Kay Shaylor’s credit cards and using them moments after she was fatally injured in a head-on crash at North Gosford about 6am on September 3, 2016.
February 15, 2017
Geelong woman Sara Purtill was a passionate artist, but she says three years as a residential care worker at homes run by MacKillop Family Services has destroyed her creativity. During her time working with some of the state’s most vulnerable and damaged children in the Barwon region she said she was threatened with knives, locked in her office as two children tried to set fire to the unit, and is now unable to work due to crippling post-traumatic stress disorder.
February 15, 2017
Alzheimer’s Australia has announced Maree McCabe as its new National CEO.
February 15, 2017
A retiree has been bitten by a tiger snake at the back of his unit at a Hervey Bay retirement complex.
February 15, 2017
A care firm worker moved into the home of a vulnerable client they were supposed to be looking after, a damning report reveals. The employee used his frail charge’s house as a squat – and later had to be forced out. Other staff with the same care agency used the properties of housebound residents as a place to sleep for the night. One frail charge even had two employees sharing their bedroom.
February 15, 2017
Rozane Bezuidenhout is passionate about aged care and policies around the protection of the elderly. The public sector worker wants to see every Australian with a roof over their heads and wants to see a government focus on education and the provision of universal medical access to West Australians. The need to see change is what drove Mrs Bezuidenhout to become a Pauline Hanson’s One Nation candidate for Cannington at the March State Election.
February 15, 2017
A Calwell woman who was suing the Canberra Hospital and two doctors over alleged failures stemming from migraine drug treatment has settled the case for $12 million. It had been alleged that as a result of the alleged failures, Stacey Louise Cave, 40, suffered a stroke and brain damage, and was left dependent on a wheelchair.
February 15, 2017
Catholic Health Care Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Riordan in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney at 8.30am (Playford).
