An Application/Notification by Huon Regional Care Limited (s.505 – Application to deal with a right of entry dispute) is before Fair Work Deputy President Barclay in Hearing Room 8, First Floor in Hobart.
September 7, 2018
A fire has ripped through a unit in a retirement village in Adelaide’s northeast overnight. Emergency services were called to the complex on Golden Grove Rd at Ridgehaven just before 1am after reports of a fire in one of the rooms. A person was treated for smoke inhalation. The damage bill is estimated at $300,000.
September 5, 2018
A s.225 (Enterprise agreement) termination application by Firsthealth Ltd for its moribund Firsthealth Limited Agreement 2009 has been agreed by Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 4 September 2018.
September 5, 2018
A NSW spiritual healer is suing a former client, saying she defamed him and portrayed him as the leader of a socially harmful cult who indecently touched her in his treatment room. The 54-year-old former tennis coach, Serge Isaac Benhayon, is suing Esther Mary Rockett on her November 2014 blog, two comments she later made on the blog, and 17 tweets. In the NSW Supreme Court, his barrister, Kieran Smark SC opened his case to the four-person jury highlighting some of Ms Rockett’s quotes including: “My claim that Benhayon is a sexual predator is not false.”
September 5, 2018
Caring ambulance workers have gone above and beyond to grant one of the last wishes of a Gold Coast man. Ron was being transported to palliative care when his wife Sharon mentioned he’d barely eaten in two days. When ambulance officers asked him what he’d like to eat more than anything else, Ron told them he wanted a caramel sundae. The officers were more than happy to oblige, even taking a moment to snap a quick photo once they’d been to McDonald’s.
September 5, 2018
Two patients have been “inappropriately touched” in the Townsville Hospital’s Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit. Townsville Hospital and Health Service chief executive Kieran Keyes confirmed the incident happened last month. “We can confirm one incident in the AAMHIU in the past two weeks where a male consumer inappropriately touched a female consumer and a male consumer in a short space of time,” Ms Keyes said in a statement. “Both consumers were supported to make a complaint to the Queensland Police Service. They were also supported by their treating teams.” Mr Keyes said those admitted to the unit were in need of acute care.
September 4, 2018
World war II hero Maxwell Murphy helped saved his country from invasion as the Japanese bombed Darwin in February 1942. Seventy-six years later his family want to know why no one was able to save him. Mr Murphy — in the early stages of dementia — died on November 21, 2014 after he drank surface sanitiser from a bottle in his bathroom at Lions Haven for the Aged at Hope Island. A pre-inquest hearing in the Coroner’s Court at Southport on Monday heard that caregivers took three hours to call triple 0 as the 88-year-old spat up blood, complained of a burning sensation in his mouth and could not breathe. Mr Murphy died three days later while in intensive care at Gold Coast University Hospital. The hearing was told an autopsy showed the inside of Mr Murphy’s oesophagus was burned and he had ammonia in both lungs. There was also damage to his upper large intestine. Coroner James McDougall on Monday officially opened the inquiry into the war veteran’s death to help give Mr Murphy’s two children and five grandchildren answers.
September 4, 2018
A well-known GP has been found not guilty of 50 counts of sexual and indecent assault after the longest criminal trial in Newcastle’s history. But after deliberating for more than nine weeks, the jury were deadlocked on the remaining 16 counts against Doctor Jeremy Coleman. The year-long trial came to a sudden halt on Monday when three members of the jury gave evidence that they were unlikely to reach unanimous or majority verdicts on the remaining counts. Judge Penny Hock discharged the jury, bringing to an end the marathon trial. Dr Coleman, 64, a general physician, allergy and immunology specialist who has seen more than 40,000 patients and conducted more than 150,000 consultations during his career, had pleaded not guilty to 66 counts of sexual and indecent assault against 46 female patients between 1989 and 2013. The well-known doctor’s defence, led by barrister Pauline David, had said repeatedly that Dr Coleman’s only purpose for examining or touching any of his patients was a medical one. “He is a highly trained and highly capable medical doctor,” Ms David said. “It was his job to examine them, it was his job to touch them.” If the examination took place there was a medical reason for it, the defence said. But for some allegations Dr Coleman denied the examinations took place or disagreed the consultations occurred the way the women claimed. It appears that the jury agreed.
