A care worker who plied a teenager with ice before sexually abusing him multiple times could be free from prison in less than three years. County Court Judge Richard Maidment said Department of Human Services worker Serge Ranwala, 50, had repeatedly exploited the trust of his 19-year-old victim. Sri Lankan-born Ranwala was found guilty last year of two counts of committing an indecent act with a person having a cognitive impairment while a worker at a DHS facility; and nine counts of sexual penetration.
January 27, 2016
An elderly man accused of shooting a retirement strata manager during a body corporate meeting allegedly told a resident the previous day not to attend saying, “I prefer no females to be there because I don’t know what is going to happen,” a district court heard. Romanian immigrant Ille Istudor was 85 when he is accused of shooting strata manager Stephen Smith through the neck with a shortened .22 calibre rifle in front of horrified residents during a meeting at their Lakemba unit block on April 24, 2014. Downing District Court Judge Andrew Haesler found that Istudor was not mentally fit to enter a plea to a charge of shooting with intent to murder or with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
January 27, 2016
A country Victorian GP has been banned from providing end-of-life care following investigations into the death of at least one patient. Nagambie doctor Alan Kosky has had the ban placed on him by a medical board convened by federal regulator the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency. The action comes amid an on-going investigation into Dr Kosky’s practices in response to complaints lodged with the agency.
January 27, 2016
Eastern Health has been served with a s.365 (application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) by a staff member (Kanyua).
January 27, 2016
Monash Health is in a s.729 dispute contretemps with a staffer (Richardson).
January 27, 2016
The ANF has launched a s.158(1) RO Act application in Fair Work Brisbane.
January 27, 2016
Presbyterian Aged Care is in dispute with a staff member (Wu) and Fair Work has been called upon to adjudicate (s.372).
January 21, 2016
More than 40 per cent of nursing graduates who applied for jobs in WA public hospitals this year have missed out. WA Health Department figures show 53 fewer nursing graduate positions in hospitals compared with last year. Last year, 1040 graduate nurses applied for 618 placements starting this year — 59 per cent finding jobs. In the previous year, 1067 graduates applied, with 671 of them finding positions.
