A social worker left in severe pain by a finger injury was forced to spend a fevered night sleeping in a fitness room at Fiona Stanley Hospital — three years after similar issues at the $2 billion facility were raised with health bosses. Claire Fisher, 45, was told she needed urgent surgery after being bitten or stung on the finger at her southern suburbs home last Wednesday as she hung out the washing. But after being treated in the emergency department and admitted to Fiona Stanley’s ward 4C, she was also told she would have to sleep in a fitness room-store room, full of trolleys, stools and an exercise bike — but little medical equipment. The mother-of-one was also given a bell to ring if she needed help, which she did when she began vomiting. But the bell could not be heard by nurses — so Ms Fisher had to search for staff to give her some pain medication. “The staff were wonderful, caring, and attentive — but I was really surprised at the room they had to put me in,” Ms Fisher said. “They seemed embarrassed at having to do it. “A nurse told me the hospital always puts people in that room … and the staff hate it.
January 14, 2019
Geelong Grammar School’s former live-in doctor has been committed to stand trial on a series of historic sex offences. David Brian Mackey, 84, fronted a committal hearing in Geelong Magistrates’ Court on allegations he indecently abused a girl and a woman during the 1970s. Magistrate Peter Mellas found there was enough evidence for 10 charges to proceed to a trial in the County Court, however five other charges were thrown out. Dr Mackey has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The Point Lonsdale man was the live-in doctor at Geelong Grammar’s Corio campus from 1964 until 1993. Before yesterday’s court hearing, he was already awaiting a County Court trial on dozens of separate indecent assault charges allegedly committed between 1968 and 1989. The alleged victims in those cases were students at Geelong Grammar during Dr Mackey’s tenure. It was not immediately clear whether the former GP will face separate trials. Dr Mackey will next appear in Melbourne County Court on January 24.
January 14, 2019
Life Without Barriers & Biddle are facing a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) before Fair Work Deputy President Lake in his Brisbane chambers at 2.15pm (Driscoll).
January 14, 2019
A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) application launched by Kevin Cosmos citing Yaburara and Coastal Mardudhunera Aboriginal Corporations has been turned down by Fair Work Deputy President Binet in Perth on 11 January 2019.
January 14, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Armest Pty Ltd T/A Miles Witt Partnership for the Lions Haven Residential Support Staff Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 11 January 2019.
January 11, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Wonthaggi and District Elderly Citizens Homes Inc T/A Rose Lodge for the Wonthaggi and District Elderly Citizens Homes Inc (trading as Rose Lodge), ANMF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been agreed by Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 9 January 2019.
January 11, 2019
A neo-Nazi group hung stickers depicting swastikas at the entrance to a Jewish old-age home in Melbourne. The neo-Nazi Antipodian Resistance organisation posted the stickers of their logo, which bears a large swastika, at the entrance of the Emmy Monash Aged Care in Melbourne, home to elderly Jewish community members including Holocaust survivors, in the heartland of the Victorian Jewish community. They were discovered by a man visiting his elderly parents at the facility last week.
January 11, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Department of Human Services T/A Department of Human Services for the Department of Human Services Medical Officers Agreement 2018-2021 has been ratified by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 10 January 2019.
