Euthanasia allegations have been made during a probe into a terminally ill woman’s death at a Tablelands aged care facility as her family sat in court with her ashes. Stella Hamilton, 72, had been in palliative care at the Malanda Ozcare centre when she was found dead in 2016 with her sheet and blanket covering her face, raising questions about whether or not it was done deliberately. The Cairns Coroners Court heard that Mrs Hamilton’s daughter Fiona Hamilton, who was at the centre when she died, allegedly told a nurse, “Hamish told me that if we cover her face … she will go quicker.” Ms Hamilton and her brother Hamish, who gave evidence yesterday, denied this.
October 22, 2018
Trustees for the Roman Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn have a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) on their hands before Deputy President Dean in Hearing Room 14-2 – Level 14 in Sydney (Crowley).
October 22, 2018
An application by Mulpha Sanctuary Cove (Developments) Pty Limited (s.318 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new) will be determined by Fair Work Senior Deputy President Hamberger in his NSW chambers.
October 22, 2018
A Melbourne doctor allegedly kept a refugee as a slave, working him 14 hours a day without breaks, supplying him opioids for pain and threatening to have him killed, adding “no one will know”, a tribunal has been told. Dr Seyyed Ali Abdolzadeh Farshchi failed to pay the Iranian refugee for three months because he was “in training” but eventually paid him $10 an hour, irregularly, and he didn’t receive the full amount, according to a police summary provided to VCAT. The victim, named X, worked 14 hours a day without breaks and alleges he sometimes he worked 21-hour days. He alleges the Iranian trained doctor gave him opioids to “get his power again” despite being tired and in pain from long working hours. However when on one occasion he had a seizure and collapsed, his workmates were told by Dr Farshchi not to call an ambulance but instead bring him to his office. The doctor didn’t see him, and when X later asked: “Didn’t you think I might die?”, he responded “he would put X’s body in the septic tank and dissolve it with acid”, the summary alleges. When X raised issues about his pay, Dr Farshchi allegedly threatened to get members of the local Iranian community to put a bag over his head and throw him in the ocean, adding “no one will know”. The tribunal was told X feared the doctor and sometimes vomited at work due to stress, believing “eventually Dr Farshchi will destroy him”. Dr Farshchi is charged with causing a person to enter into or remain in forced labour and conducting a business involving forced labour between July 2015 to March 2017 but has strenuously denied the allegations. Dr Farshchi faces Melbourne Magistrates Court in February.
October 22, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by St Paul’s Hostel for the Elderly for the St Paul’s Hostel Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Melbourne on 18 October 2018.
October 19, 2018
A doctor has been accused of raping a patient at a Brisbane medical centre. Police allege the doctor, 50, assaulted a 26-year-old woman at the centre on Thursday. He is due to front the Brisbane Magistrates Court today on one charge of rape, and one count of sexual assault.
October 19, 2018
A doctor has been accused of drugging and indecently assaulting a female patient in Sydney’s inner west. It’s alleged the 20-year-old woman was drugged without her knowledge or consent while under the care of the 48-year-old who then indecently assaulted her. Detectives today searched his Auburn medical practice and Rydalmere home where they seized several items. He was arrested and as a result of ongoing investigations, three other victims were identified, police said in a statement.
October 19, 2018
An application for approval of the St Vincent’s Private Hospital Nurses’ Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be ruled upon by Fair Work Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney.
