An uninsured driver has escaped charges after crashing into a house and leaving its elderly owners with a damage bill close to $100,000. Padam Ghimire was driving on an Indian licence when he smashed into the Port Macquarie home of Bruce and Dawn Coker. “This has destroyed our lives,” Mrs Coker said. The couple’s house is on the market and they must sell within weeks, or else lose a deposit they’ve paid for a place in a retirement village. “It’s pretty hard to get a buyer and then convince them the house is going to be repaired,” Mr Coker said. The couple was watching television in their first floor lounge room when their world literally shattered around them. “It just sounded like a bomb or an earthquake because everything was falling – all the glassware, bits of gyprock were flying off,” Mrs Coker said. Her husband raced downstairs to find a car had crashed into the front of the home and his neighbour trying to stop Mr Ghimire fleeing the scene. Emergency crews flooded the driveway in a desperate effort to stabilise the home. But NSW Police said they could not take further action against Mr Ghimire as it was a minor accident. “It’s beyond my comprehension, I can’t believe it,” Mr Coker explained. “How can it be a minor accident when it’s tens of thousands [dollars worth of damage]? It’s just under a hundred thousand, we were told,” Mrs Coker added. Mr Ghimire, an aged care cleaner, said he crashed into the brick house after swerving off the road to avoid hitting a cat or a koala.
August 20, 2019
Safe Places Community Services Limited will defend a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Booth in Hearing Room 3 in Brisbane (Watson).
August 20, 2019
An application for termination of the Women’s Health Queensland Wide Inc Enterprise Agreement 2010-2014 (s.225 – Application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) will be reviewed by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in Chambers in Brisbane.
August 20, 2019
The Health Services Union and Monash Health are in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) contretemps before Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Court 5 – Level 6 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne today.
August 19, 2019
A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) from Epic Pharmacy Services Pty Ltd T/A Epic Pharmacy for the Epic SEQ Hospital Pharmacy Services Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 has been given approval by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in Brisbane on 16 August 2019.
August 19, 2019
The Health Services Union – Victoria No 2 Branch and Moira Limited have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) on foot before Fair Work Commissioner Wilson in chambers in Melbourne this morning.
August 19, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from the Australian Red Cross Society T/A Australian Red Cross Blood Service for its Australian Red Cross Blood Service Western Australian Manufacturing and Support Service Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Melbourne on 15 August 2019.
August 19, 2019
A Brisbane doctor has managed to escape jail over drug offences for the second time in as many years, with the Judge granting her leniency because of her duties as a single mother to a four-month-old daughter. Rebecca Jane Ianniello, 34, wiped tears from her eyes today after receiving her sentence of two years jail with immediate parole for a string of drug offences. A police raid on Ms Ianniello’s Brisbane CBD hotel room uncovered around 4.5g of pure methamphetamine and over $20,000 cash in November 2017. The suspended medical practitioner was arraigned in June this year after pleading guilty to possessing more than 2g of a dangerous drug, another drug possession charge, possessing a relevant substance and possessing a thing relevant to drug possession. Ms Ianniello was already on parole when she faced court today, after being sentenced to 18 months jail but immediately paroled in September last year for being caught with more than 30g of methamphetamine in 2016. Justice Thomas Bradley told the court in other circumstances, a jail term of 2.5 years would be appropriate for the kind of offences Ms Ianniello committed, but granted her immediate parole because of her “particular situation.”
