A former Department of Human Services disability support worker whose lawyer said he was deeply religious and in denial about this sexuality has admitted abusing a series of male patients over 13 years across Melbourne’s east. Craig Handasyde, 47, of Croydon, pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court to 11 charges of committing an indecent act with a cognitively impaired person by a worker. The abuse occurred across residential facilities in a number of suburbs, and in some cases involved long-term clients between 1998 and 2011.
September 3, 2015
A man accused of pretending to be a nurse in two states will be flown to Queensland after he was found wandering in the Northern Territory outback. Nicholas William Crawford faces more than 110 charges in Queensland after he allegedly used fake documents to get a $100,000-a-year job at a clinic in Aurukun, in Cape York, earlier this year. The 30-year-old had been given bail and ordered to stay at his mother’s home in Victoria but was last week ordered back into custody after being found on a remote stretch of highway between Alice Springs and Katherine. He was remanded into the custody of Queensland police at the Alice Springs Magistrates Court on Monday.
September 3, 2015
An application for approval of the BASS Care Aged Care Enterprise Agreement 2014 is before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
September 3, 2015
Albury Wodonga Health has made a s.768BA (application for an order about coverage for transferring employees under a state instrument) to Fair Work Commissioner Deputy President Hamilton in Melbourne.
September 3, 2015
A nurse who pretended she was the “granddaughter-in-law” of her elderly patient with dementia and had his mail redirected to her home has been suspended from nursing for a year.
September 3, 2015
Cabrini Hospital nurses have voted to take their first industrial action since 1986 as they push for higher pay and reject being charged $2 a day for car parking.
September 3, 2015
The Victorian Government will introduce legislation to guarantee a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio as set out in current enterprise agreements.
September 3, 2015
Pulse Health is dealing with a s.365 (application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) by an ex-employee (Cudmore).
