NEWS-HR

Moorditch Gurlongga Assoc. will face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of a Fair Work Arbitration Roster appointee in the Fair Work Commission 111 St Georges Terrace Perth at 10am on Wednesday (Kaur).

Three young police officers are being praised for their bravery after risking their lives to rescue two elderly residents – one who was blind and the other with lung cancer – from a burning retirement village. Emergency services were called to the Uniting Retirement Villiage in Lindfield, in Sydney’s north, about 7.40pm on Sunday. Two elderly residents had been trapped by the blaze, which had broken out in a top-floor unit. Three police officers battled through the smoke and flames to rescue the two residents, identified as 99-year-old Peter Goldman and Gary Marshall, 82, from a balcony. The 99-year-old man and the hero officers, including a female probationary officer, were taken to Royal North Shore Hospital suffering smoke inhalation. All the officers, aged 24, 25 and 30, have since been released from hospital and are continuing to recover at home.

An application by Nurses’ Professional Association of Queensland Inc (s.229 – Application for a bargaining order) will be determined by Commissioner Booth in Chambers in Brisbane at 2.30pm.

A man who spat at paramedics trying to assist him after smashing a bank window has faced court. Mathew John Lee pleaded guilty to commit public nuisance within licensed premises or in the vicinity of licensed premises, obstruct police officer and two counts of wilful damage when he faced Ayr Magistrates Court this week.

Fattah was accused of performing medically unnecessary examinations on the women for his own sexual gratification but argued at trial each had a “proper medical purpose”. A District Court jury in May found him guilty of 13 counts of sexual intercourse without consent and five counts of assault with act of indecency. He was found not guilty of 12 other offences. The 16 female complainants, who each gave evidence, were aged between 19 and 40. Judge Sharon Harris on Friday set a minimum non-parole period of 11 years, meaning that, with time served, Fattah won’t be eligible for parole until October 2028.

A vague vandal who couldn’t remember repeatedly ‘keying’ strangers’ cars in a serial scratching spree has been placed on a good behaviour bond. But John Wood, 73, must pay back nearly $8000 in compensation to the owners of the seven duco-damaged vehicles he attacked. And he has also been banned from attending Rosebud Plaza without his wife in tow. Wood pleaded guilty at Dromana Magistrates’ Court to seven criminal damage charges on Thursday. The court heard the Rosebud retiree couldn’t explain why he vandalised six vehicles in the Plaza car park and one in the neighbouring Aldi area last year. He was nabbed on the last occasion, on October 29, by an alert Plaza security guard who noticed him acting suspiciously. She went over to see what was going on, saw Wood using something to scratch another car’s door, and confronted him. Wood told her “someone had done it to him previously”, alluding to that fact he may have himself been the victim of ‘keying’. But he then drove off before police could arrive.

An application for approval of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Community Child Care Centre Enterprise Agreement 2018 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be ruled upon by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Hearing Room 6.2 – Level 6 in Adelaide at 3.30pm.

Uniting (NSW.ACT) is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Saunders at Level 3, 237 Whard Road, Newcastle at 3pm (Bouras).