Suspected nursing home murder victim Marie Darragh’s daughters have broken down in court as an account of her autopsy unfolded before the jury. Accused double-murderer Megan Jean Haines sat in the Sydney Supreme Court dock as Lismore Hospital chief surgical dresser John Hall gave evidence via video link. Mr Hall spoke about transporting Ms Darragh and Isabella Spencer’s bodies from the aged care centre on May 10, 2014, to collect samples in the hospital’s mortuary. The description brought Ms Darragh’s daughters Janet Parkinson and Charli Darragh to tears, and they removed themselves from the courtroom.
October 31, 2016
An application for approval of the National Capital Private Hospital – HSU Non Clinical and Allied Health Employees – Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Deputy President Gostencnik in his Melbourne Chambers.
October 31, 2016
A Northern Territory Indigenous corporation has settled a legal challenge in the Federal Court with its former chief executive, who was sacked after he blew the whistle on financial irregularities. The Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Indigenous Corporation Board in Borroloola, in the Territory’s Gulf of Carpentaria country, sacked Michael Gravener in 2015. Former CEO Mr Gravener argued he was sacked after he raised concerns about how money allocated by governments to alleviate disadvantage in Borroloola’s remote Indigenous communities was being spent. He had only been employed at the corporation for nine weeks. Mabunji challenged Mr Gravener’s Federal Court case, but ultimately dropped its defence. Instead they offered Mr Gravener a settlement on the condition that he did not speak further about the case. The corporation’s current chief executive said the settlement would not affect the services it provided to Borroloola Indigenous communities, including housing maintenance and aged care, because its insurers would pay.
October 28, 2016
A Hamilton nurse who stole hundreds of dollars from a rest home patient has had her registration cancelled, ending her 44-year career. Eva Martha Harrison, 63, was a registered nurse at Te Puia Springs Hospital on the East Coast when the theft happened.
October 28, 2016
The Paraplegic & Quadriplegic Association of NSW is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Deputy President Booth (Duarte).
October 28, 2016
Ex-Salvation Army worker Robert Burnett was said to be an ‘affectionate, benevolent father figure’ for the children in his care. But there was another, sinister side to the man that led him to remorselessly sexually prey on the most vulnerable of them for more than 20 years as a carer in a Victorian boys’ home. Now, the 77-year-old is likely to die behind bars after he was found guilty of abusing seven boys – aged about seven to 13 – at his home or on camping trips in Victoria from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, sometimes while they slept.
October 28, 2016
Barossa Village Inc has been served notice of a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staffer (Chambers). Commissioner Platt with hear the case in his Adelaide Chambers.
October 28, 2016
A huge blaze which ravaged a house at a retirement complex at St Morris yesterday has been blamed on items left on a stove top, which then ignited. The owners of the Gables of St Morris property were left shocked and shattered by the fire, which caused $300,000 in damage.
