A man charged with assaulting two paramedics who came to his aid after being found drunk and passed out on a footpath has been denied bail. Tony Lev Charlie, 61, was allegedly more than four times the legal limit when he punched a male paramedic and bit a second officer in the back of an ambulance.
January 30, 2017
Calvary Health Care ACT Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Deputy President Kovacic in hearing room 1 in Canberra.
January 30, 2017
New Zealand doctors and medical students have been downloading an app that allows sharing of “freak show” photographs of patients for medical purposes. The popularity of the case-sharing app Figure1 – described as an Instagram for doctors – has prompted warnings from Auckland University about its use. The app was launched in Canada in 2013, and essentially allows doctors to crowd-source diagnoses. Medical professionals can upload pictures of diseases or wounds to the app, asking other users for their input into treatment or causes. Anyone with a smartphone can access it – it is not restricted to doctors.
January 30, 2017
Sunnyfield Disability Services has been served with a s.773 (Application to deal with an unlawful termination dispute) by an ex-staffer (Kafoa).
January 27, 2017
New South Wales Health Minister Jillian Skinner has announced she will retire after more than two decades in state politics.
January 27, 2017
A welfare cheat caught stealing from the public purse three times in three different states has dodged an immediate prison sentence for scamming more than $20,000 in Centrelink payments. Melinda Brown, of Gol Gol, pleaded guilty to the Commonwealth charge of obtaining financial advantage by deception when she faced Mildura Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Appearing for the Commonwealth, prosecutor Peter Delorenzo said Brown received $22,305.92 in Newstart overpayments over 2½ years by deliberately not reporting, or under reporting, her earnings while working at an aged-care home. The court heard Brown had faced identical charges in NSW in 2005 and in Queensland in 2001. Magistrate Gerard Bryant sentenced Brown to six months’ prison, wholly suspended. She has been ordered to repay the overpayments to the Commonwealth.
January 27, 2017
The driver of a Warrigal care minibus has been charged over a crash that killed one elderly woman and injured several others on a highway south of Sydney. The minibus carrying 11 people was headed to a barbecue when it collided with a truck and landed on its side on the Princes Motorway at Yallah just after midday yesterday. An 88-year-old female passenger died at the scene. Seven bus passengers were transferred to Wollongong and Shellharbour hospitals after the crash while another was airlifted to Sydney’s St George Hospital. Most patients are either in a stable condition or had been discharged, except for one 86-year-old woman at Wollongong hospital who was serious but stable. The 63-year-old bus driver has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death, and his licence was also suspended, NSW Police said.
January 27, 2017
Fair Work Commission head Iain Ross has intervened into the default superannuation debate, revealing to an independent inquiry that the federal government has left the commission’s default fund selection process in limbo for the past three years. Justice Ross, who is also a federal court judge, said senior ministers had effectively ignored his multiple requests to resolve the situation in a December 20 submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into alternative arrangements for default superannuation funds. The inquiry was set up by the Turnbull government with a view to remove Fair Work’s selection role and promote competition with retail funds.
