An application for approval of the BreastScreen Victoria Inc Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner McKinnon in his Melbourne chambers at 10am.
October 10, 2018
The Coroners Court is investigating the death of an 89-year-old woman whose body may have remained in her Grovedale retirement village for more than a week before being discovered. Police were called to Abervale Retirement Village following the discovery of the body about 1pm on August 23.
October 10, 2018
A s.394 (unfair dismissal) application by Orce Poposki against Warrigal Care T/A Coniston Nursing Home has been put on hold by Fair Work Deputy President Bull in Sydney on 9 October 2018 pending the outcome of a related criminal matter.
October 10, 2018
EMR vendor Cerner Asia Pacific has appointed high-profile digital health experts Monica Trujillo and Michael Draheim to senior positions with the company.
October 10, 2018
2Connect, Youth and Community INC is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Conference Rooms 11D – 11E – Level 11 in Sydney (Onuoha).
October 9, 2018
One of the heads of Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service is behind bars facing allegations of domestic violence after he allegedly suffocated his wife with a dressing gown. Executive director of medical services Dr Piotr Swierkowski, 43, was arrested last night and charged with choking, suffocation or strangulation in a domestic relationship. He was today stood down from his position at the hospital.
October 9, 2018
A former midwife who was ordered to pay $6.6 million to the family of a boy delivered in a botched home birth has been convicted of sending money to New Zealand instead of giving it to the child’s family. Akal Kaur Khalsa, 73, filed for bankruptcy in 2014 after the NSW Supreme Court ordered her to pay damages for negligence over the October 2006 birth, during which the boy sustained brain damage from a lack of oxygen. The boy subsequently developed quadriplegic cerebral palsy, epilepsy and an intellectual disability and will require a full-time carer for the rest of his life. A court estimate put the cost of his care at $6,140 per week when he is an adult. In a 2013 judgment, Justice Peter Garling found Khalsa – who initially defended the Supreme Court case before withdrawing – had been negligent in both recommending and carrying out the home birth. She was ordered to pay $6.6 million, including $4.24 million for the boy’s future care, but ultimately paid about $410,000 to the boy’s family and other creditors after filing for bankruptcy. In several months between the court order and being declared bankrupt, Khalsa sold 4000 shares in Telstra, worth $18,950, organised a removalist company to move household items including a $5000 painting to New Zealand, and transferred $33,000 to New Zealand to fund the purchase of a Toyota Rav 4, which was later transferred into her daughter’s name. Khalsa also sold a caravan worth $13,500, sold $2938 of fashion shares and transferred $25,000 from her ANZ account to a bank account in New Zealand. A statement of affairs, filed with her bankruptcy application, included portions that were false. Khalsa was found guilty of eight charges during a District Court trial this year, including disposing of property in the 12 months before bankruptcy, making a false declaration, preparing to leave Australia without her bankruptcy trustee’s permission, and disposing of property with intent to defraud. On Friday, District Court judge Robert Sutherland sentenced Khalsa to a 12-month community corrections order and 150 hours of community service after finding the “piecemeal transfer of funds” was part of Khalsa’s ongoing desire to move to New Zealand to be with her daughter. Judge Sutherland said about $410,000 was distributed to Khalsa’s “circling” creditors after she sold her share in a factory, including $407,000 to the family of the boy, $1272 to the Health Care Complaints Commission, and small amounts to the tax office and American Express. He said a victim impact statement from the boy’s mother described “financial loss, pain, anger, hate” and “condemnation” of Khalsa. “There is no doubt the defrauding of creditors is a very substantial contributing factor to what might be described as the angst, properly felt, by [the boy’s] mother,” Judge Sutherland said.
October 9, 2018
Blue Care is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Dean in his Sydney chambers (Healy).
