A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Warramunda Village Incorporated T/A Warramunda Village for the Warramunda Village Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2018 (Health and welfare services) has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon sitting in Melbourne, on 28 June 2019.
July 2, 2019
A 94-year-old woman has been robbed in her Sunshine Coast retirement village after opening the door to what appeared to be a distraught mother making a desperate call for help. Police believe the woman came to the resident’s door with a child aged seven or eight by her side and struck up a conversation at about 5.30pm. Minutes after the stranger walked away, she returned — only this time, the child was gone. Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards said the woman claimed she had lost her child, and when the resident opened the door, the woman entered the home and stole her purse. When the nonagenarian realised what was going on she tried to ring police, but the thief snatched the phone from her hands. Police found the stolen purse, containing about $10 in cash, a short distance from the home. Management from the Immanuel Gardens’ Retirement Village say the incident is an isolated one, and the alleged offender was not known to the resident, and was not visiting others in the complex.
July 2, 2019
A 95-year-old man has died after being hit by a car while riding a mobility scooter in central Victoria. The crash happened at an intersection in Maryborough, north of Ballarat, about 2.55pm on Thursday. The man was flown to hospital but died on arrival. His death takes the state’s road toll for the year to 153. The driver of the car was uninjured.
July 2, 2019
A retirement village accused of enforcing a “lockdown” following an outbreak of gastro has denied the claims, saying it would “never lock anyone in”. Evelyn Page Retirement Village in Orewa has been dealing with an outbreak of suspected norovirus since June 16, with a total of 43 cases since. A resident said she had not been allowed to leave her room and felt like she was “living in a jail”. She also claimed visitors were being turned away. And, the daughter of another resident was told that the village was in “lockdown” and she couldn’t visit. However, Ryman Healthcare corporate affairs manager David King said the village was not in lockdown. “We have written to families and residents letting them know, and said they are welcome to visit, but have to take precautions,” he said. “What is correct is we’ve suspended all communal activities, where large numbers of people would normally get together, while they have the bug, because that is how bugs spread.”
July 2, 2019
Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc. has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) on foot before Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon in Court 4- Level 6 and Conference Room C – Level 6 in Melbourne (Johnson).
July 1, 2019
The residential care manager of Tin Can Bay’s only aged care facility, Residency by Dillons, Mrs Goodall is to retire.
July 1, 2019
Police have charged a woman over a series of alleged robberies targeting elderly nursing home residents on the Sunshine Coast. Among them, according to police, was a 91-year-old woman who was abducted from her retirement home, robbed and left to spend a night disorientated when she was unable to find her way home. It will be alleged the same offender two weeks later targeted a random 94-year-old woman at another retirement home and accused her of kidnapping her child before robbing her. Police said the accused coerced the 91-year-old woman into her car at a Maroochydore retirement village on June 13, drove her to an ATM and forced her to hand over money. It will be alleged she dropped the elderly woman back near her home, but she became lost and spent almost two weeks in hospital recovering from dehydration after she was found the next morning.. Police will allege the same offender On June 27 tried to convince a 94-year-old woman at Immanuel Gardens Retirement Living and Aged Care in Buderim that the pair knew each other.
July 1, 2019
A bankrupt Melbourne barrister who ran a complex $52 million tax avoidance scheme and appointed an elderly friend with dementia as a director of one of his companies has had his four-year ban from the legal profession upheld. Tax specialist Alan Sandbach, a former board member of a prestigious private girls’ school, had his ban from the Bar Council affirmed by The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal after he failed to appear despite launching the challenge.
