NEWS-HR

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Healthe Care Australia Pty Ltd for its Healthe Care (Qld Private Hospitals) Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 28 May 2018.

A man has died in hospital weeks after being stabbed at a care facility in Melbourne’s north. The 57-year-old Preston facility in-patient was hospitalised with life-threatening injuries after the alleged attack on May 10 and died on Monday, police said. A 48-year-old man, also an in-patient at the facility, was earlier charged with assault-related offences and remains in custody. The charges are set to be reviewed following the man’s death.

A paramedic has been injured after a man smashed an ambulance windscreen with a metal bar in Queensland’s Fraser Coast region. Police say the 56-year-old pedestrian was at a Maryborough intersection when he attacked the vehicle just after 12am on Tuesday. The bar shattered glass which sprayed into the driver’s eye. Maryborough Officer in Charge Marco Polino said a patient was inside the vehicle when the random man flagged them down. “He pulled out a metal pole and began striking the front driver’s side windscreen of the vehicle,” Mr Polino said.

An application for approval of the RSL LifeCare, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement will be determined by Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney at 2pm.

SC St Vincent De Paul Society NSW must defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-4 – Level 11 in Sydney (Ghanima).

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited is still dealing with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Hearing Room 14-1- Level 14 in Sydney (Yazgan).

A Nelson health professional who secretly filmed colleagues with a toilet-cam is making another bid for permanent name suppression. The 44-year-old has lodged an appealed to the High Court after Judge David Ruth denied him name suppression on Thursday and convicted him on eight charges of making an intimate visual recording in the Nelson District Court. He had earlier pleaded guilty and was last week sentenced to seven months’ home detention. However, he has appealed a ruling over the release of his name. The man installed a small camera in a bathroom used by staff, capturing video footage of at least 10 colleagues using the toilet. His offending came to light by chance when he lost his tablet computer, and it was recovered by police.

A 22-year-old Frankston man who allegedly stole jewellery, credit cards and personal property from retirement villages was arrested by police last Friday (18 May). The man was charged with five aggravated burglaries, one burglary and handling stolen goods. He was arrested at a Frankston address in possession of a stolen car with stolen registration plates and was also charged with the theft of a motor vehicle. The alleged burglar ransacked rooms at retirement villages including The Village Baxter and Long Island Retirement Village between 7 April and 9 May. Residents aged between 70-80 were asleep when burgled.