A group of nurses in Brisbane have started an Instagram account posting photos of a toy poo in iconic places around the world. Ward 6E colorectal clinical nurses from the Wesley Hospital started the account earlier this year to raise awareness about bowel cancer.
September 26, 2016
An application for approval of the St John of God Health Care (NSW Hospitals) Health Professionals and Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being considered by Commissioner Johns in the privacy of his Melbourne chambers.
September 26, 2016
Pharmacy Warehouse has put Pese on the sidewalk and now has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) roadblock with which to contend.
September 26, 2016
National Disability Insurance Agency is dealing with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12 – 2 – Level 12 in Sydney (Sutch).
September 26, 2016
Lane Cove Retirement Units Association Ltd is still defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staff member (Allan).
September 26, 2016
Runaway Bay Sports Medicine Pty Ltd is now facing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) lodged by a staff member (Dwyer).
September 26, 2016
Eric Abetz has criticised former Fair Work Commission vice-president Michael Lawler, urging him to drop legal action against Employment Minister Michaelia Cash. Senator Abetz, a former employment minister, said taxpayers would be unimpressed by the legal action given Mr Lawler’s long periods of sick leave while on a $435,000 salary. Mr Lawler’s application for judicial review was lodged in the Federal Court as his partner, Kathy Jackson, prepared to face court on fraud and theft charges stemming from her time as a Health Services Union branch secretary. Mr Lawler, who has previously helped Ms Jackson during court proceedings, resigned the day before a report by Peter Heerey QC into his activities was due to be handed to Senator Cash. “I am sure the long-suffering Australian taxpayer will not be impressed by this court action, which will tie up public money for the court process, but also the attempt to get even more money in circumstances where the Australian taxpayer has been extremely forbearing given the circumstances,’’ Senator Abetz said. “I think the Australian taxpayer would welcome Mr Lawler not proceeding with this case. “Speaking on behalf of the Australian taxpayer, if I can be so presumptuous, they would be pleased if he were not to pursue a case of this nature given that, for the last two years of his life on the bench, the productivity levels were relatively low.’’ Senator Abetz said for Mr Lawler “to be on that salary and then pursue court action, most people would say ‘what on earth is going on?’.” A spokesman for Senator Cash said Mr Lawler’s legal action was “misconceived’’ and would be contested by the commonwealth. The government has refused to respond to opposition calls to disclose the benefits payable to Mr Lawler on his retirement, including whether he had applied for a pension payment. Mr Heerey’s report found misbehaviour by Mr Lawler constituted grounds for his dismissal, pointing to his failure to disclose his relationship with Ms Jackson while presiding over two industrial conferences in which she was appearing for the HSU. The exact nature of Mr Lawler’s bid for judicial review is still to be revealed.
September 23, 2016
A NSW aged care nurse accused of killing two elderly residents and attempting to murder a third told police they died from food poisoning during a police interview, a court has heard. The trial of Garry Davis, 29, was played segments of a police interview in the New South Wales Supreme Court in Newcastle today. Mr Davis is accused of injecting insulin into three otherwise healthy residents over a two day period in October 2013 at the Summit Aged care facility in the Newcastle suburb of Wallsend. “It must play on your mind that three people two were killed and one narrowly survived…what do you think happened?,” a police officer asked Mr Davis. “I can’t explain it, I don’t know what’s happened to them,” Mr Davis replied. “I just thought it was like a food poisoning because it just said poisoning.
