A non-publication order on a Families SA supervisor who promoted paedophile carer Shannon McCoole and allegedly called a whistleblower a bitch, has been revoked by the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission. Lee Michael Norman, 33, is facing criminal charges in the Adelaide Magistrates Court and the commission heard he had been suspended with pay from the child protection agency since his arrest in June 2015. He is charged with dishonestly taking property without consent and dishonest dealings with documents, alleged to have been committed in May 2015 at Aldinga Beach.
May 17, 2016
A security guard has died in Gympie Hospital, north of Brisbane, shortly after he tried to restrain a mental health patient. The 46-year-old man died after the incident, which occurred in the hospital’s emergency department about 11:30am on Sunday.
May 17, 2016
Eight nursing students from Thailand are being introduced to the world of aged care nursing in Australia at Mercy Place Mandurah.
May 17, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has approved the Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria (VICSERV) Employment Agreement 2015-2018.
May 17, 2016
Townsville’s former Labor mayor Tony Mooney has been appointed to the Townsville Hospital and Health Service Board.
May 17, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that Anna Pendelich has failed ‘procedurally’ to prosecute her unfair dismissal case against Lyrebird Villages for the Aged Inc.
May 17, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has given its approval of the Ramsay Health Care WA Hospitals Health Services Union Enterprise Agreement 2016.
May 16, 2016
Ms Helen Exton lodged a General Protections application involving a dismissal pursuant to s.365 of the Fair Work Act 2009 against Western health. Ms Exton was a care co-ordinator at Western Health in Melbourne. She says that she was forced to resign on 29 October 2015. Ms Exton alleges that she was forced to resign because of a broad campaign of bullying by a range of people. But Fair Work Deputy President Lawrence said – “Having considered all of the factors set out in s.366(2), I am not satisfied that there are exceptional circumstances warranting the granting of a further period for the making of an application under s.366(2). Accordingly, the application is dismissed.” And so Ms Exton is now in the legal wilderness.
