NEWS-HR

The Brain Injury Association of Queensland is still fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before the Fair Work Commission at Central Plaza Two Level 14 66 Eagle Street Brisbane (Leatham).

If Helen Gleeson had been sitting in her lounge shortly after 7pm on Tuesday, she might not still be alive. Thankfully the 78-year-old was in her bedroom when a red Toyota Camry careened through the corner of her home at the Bupa Winara Retirement Village in Waikanae, north of Wellington. “I got a hell of a fright,” she said. “At first I thought it was an earthquake, but the ground wasn’t moving so then I decided it must be a meteorite.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).