Ambulance Victoria is dealing with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Deputy President Gostencnik in Court 5 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne.
April 26, 2019
A former registrar at the Royal Hobart Hospital has been suspended for six weeks after calling for women to be raped. The Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal last week found Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, 31, guilty of professional misconduct. The Medical Board of Australia has alleged that Dr Lee made “inappropriate comments” in Singaporean chat rooms while working and residing in Hobart in December 2016. During the tribunal hearings, Chairman Robert Webster listed some of the derogatory comments made by Dr Lee. “Some women deserve to be raped, and that supercilious little bitch fits the bill in every way,” one of the comments said. “She needs to be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped in order for her to wake up her idea. “I am a medical practitioner. I also have a foul mouth and call a spade a spade. “I can just as easily condemn your mother for a whore.” In the decision, handed down on April 17, Mr Webster said Dr Lee’s comments were “disrespectful of women”, “racially discriminatory” and had “potential to cause harm to the public”. He also found Dr Lee was identifiable as an Australian medical practitioner, which constituted professional misconduct under national law and common law. Dr Lee told the tribunal he was “relatively young and inexperienced” when he made the comments and said he had “a brash and opinionated bent” to his conduct on social media. The tribunal also found Dr Lee “did not fully appreciate that posting comments on a Singaporean online forum would have consequences on his practise of medicine in Australia”.
April 26, 2019
A wheelchair-bound woman claims she was victim of a traumatic assault at the hands of an elderly woman in Geelong hospital. Julie, who did not want her surname published, was recovering from having a fistula made for dialysis when she says she was set upon by an elderly patient with dementia. The elderly patient grabbed Julie’s arm — still tender from the fistula procedure — while the pair were in a room where Julie had been watching television. The elderly woman later kicked her wheelchair and bashed her with an umbrella in the head and neck, Julie said. Barwon Health has labelled the situation “unfortunate” and apologised for the distress caused by the February 14 incident.
April 26, 2019
Being spat on, sworn at or physically assaulted is not in the ambulance job description and nor should it happen. That is the message to the Townsville community in a new campaign targeting abuse on the job. The Queensland Ambulance Service today launched the campaign calling on the community to respect staff, because “there’s no excuse for abuse”. Paramedics will share their stories of violence and abuse on the job. The Townsville region reported 54 cases of occupational violence to the 12 months to June 2018, up from 50 the previous year. Already 38 cases have been reported in the 2018-19 financial year.
April 26, 2019
The Commonwealth of Australia (represented by the Department of Human Services) is facing a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Yilmaz in his ACT chambers (Nickam).
April 26, 2019
A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) application by Hany Attia citing Dr Nader Khodragha Pty Ltd T/A Back and Foot Clinics (Australia) has been rejected by Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Sydney on 24 April 2019. The case summary reads: “Application for costs pursuant to application for an unfair dismissal remedy – costs not awarded – costs application dismissed.”
April 26, 2019
Carers Queensland has opened six new offices around the state as part of its involvement in the NDIS community partners program. The organisation has been delivering the program, designed to help implement the NDIS locally, since 2017 with teams in Toowoomba, Ipswich and Rockhampton. As an NDIS Local Area Coordination Partner in the Community, Carers Queensland’s new offices opened at Ashmore, Logan, Eight Mile Plains, Capalaba, North Lakes and Maroochydore this month.
April 26, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation NT Branch for the Miwatji Health Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy President Gostencnik sitting in Perth on 24 April 2019.
