A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Gippsland Lakes Community Health for its Gippsland Lakes Community Health, Community Support Worker’s Agreement 2018-2021 (Health and Welfare Services) has been ratified by Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon in Melbourne on 15 April 2019.
April 17, 2019
Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) Uniting Mission and Education is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-4 – Level 11 in Sydney (Bleyerveen).
April 16, 2019
An Adelaide aged care worker who bashed an elderly resident at a nursing home has been jailed for a year. Michael Mullen, 52, was found guilty of the aggravated assault of 72-year-old Elizabeth Hannaford in November 2015. The attack took place while Mullen was working a night shift at Southern Cross Care’s Lourdes Valley nursing home at Myrtle Bank. In victim impact statements read before sentencing, Ms Hannaford’s daughter, Joanna Warde, said her mother deteriorated after the assault.
April 16, 2019
Businessman Peter Smedley, known in his heyday as “Pac-Man” for a big appetite for acquisitions when running funds management group Colonial and then logistics company Mayne Group, is being remembered fondly by family and former colleagues. Mr Smedley died on April 11 aged 76 after battling cancer. Peter Smedley was a driving force in the Orygen Youth Health Research Centre in Melbourne devoted to improving mental health for young people and had also been a long-time contributor and chairman of the charity CARE Australia.
April 16, 2019
A s.739 (Dispute resolution) application by Julian Storey against Western Health has been determined by Commissioner Yilmaz in Melbourne on 15 April 2019. On 1 March 2019, Julian Storey, represented by the Health Workers Union filed an application under s.739 of the Fair Work Act 2009 for the Fair Work Commission to deal with a dispute in accordance with the dispute settlement procedure in clause 7 of the Victorian Public Health Sector (Health and Allied Services, Managers and Administrative Workers) Single Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020. Storey is engaged in the position of security officer at Western Health. The dispute concerns the question of whether, on a proper construction of clause 8.3(b) (ii) of the Agreement, the Applicant is entitled to the Respondent’s witness notes (in particular the notes relating to the interview of the Nurse in Charge) that were obtained during the investigative process, in order for the Applicant to respond to the allegation of serious misconduct against him. The Fair Work Commissioner said no.
April 16, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Larrakia Nation for the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation Enterprise Agreement 2018 (Social, community, home care and disability services) has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy President Saunders after a Newcastle sitting on 15 April 2019.
April 16, 2019
Goldfields Individual and Family Support Association Inc is dealing with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Binet in Conference Room 12.34 in Perth (Hartlebury).
April 16, 2019
New South Wales police have arrested a New Zealand doctor for allegedly inciting a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old girl and her mother. Dr Murray Govan, a 49-year-old specialist doctor who grew up in Dunedin, is alleged to have sent child abuse material before making arrangements to meet the woman and girl for sex. Investigations led to the man being arrested outside a hotel at Parramatta in Sydney’s west on Wednesday. Detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) began engaging online with a man in March. The man allegedly talked about sexually explicit acts he wished to perform on the child and her 32-year-old mother, separately and together. Police will argue the man, who is living in Coffs Harbour, believed he was speaking to the 11-year-old’s mother. ‘‘The man was taken to Parramatta Police Station and charged with inciting a person as an accessory before the fact to attempted aggravated sexual intercourse of a person between 10 and 14 years of age, and using a carriage service for child pornography,’’ NSW Police said. Dr Govan grew up in Dunedin and studied at the University of Otago, graduating in 1993. He moved to Australia more than 16 years ago, where he runs the Coffs Coast Skin Cancer Clinic. He a Fellow of the Skin Cancer College and is a tutor for the Advanced Clinical Certificate of Skin Cancer Medicine and Surgery as well as a lecturer in the Certificate of Skin Cancer Medicine. Skin Cancer College Australasia chief executive Lynette Hunt said the college board met on Friday and suspended Govan’s membership and directorship. The doctor appeared at Parramatta Local Court on Friday. He did not apply for bail, and remains in custody. He will reappear at Parramatta Court on Wednesday.
