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A dog has savagely mauled a woman’s treasured poodle to death in a horrific attack in a Mornington retirement village. Annie, who didn’t want her surname used, was taking her beloved poodle cross, Jaxon, 12, on his regular late afternoon walk around the Peninsula Grange Retirement Community on April 17, when two roaming dogs from a property outside the village attacked. “All of a sudden two big, black dogs, I didn’t hear them, they came up behind me,” Annie said.

St Vincent De Paul Society NSW has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-3 – Level 11 in Sydney (Purcell).

A bag found on a jogging track was the key clue that led Hills residents to save an elderly woman who went missing from a retirement village on Sunday. Rosemary Prior, 79, was last seen at her retirement community in Bellevue Heights at 3pm. The alarm was raised yesterday morning and police began searching the area. A jogger on a nearby track off Federation Crt found Ms Prior’s bag and her beret on the path next to a gully. The jogger took both items to a nearby house and gave them to the owner for safe keeping. The owner, who contacted police and initiated a search which found the injured Ms Prior just metres from where the bag was found, said the jogger gave him the bag because he couldn’t carry it while running.

A Pakuranga man’s mum was nearly scammed thousands of dollars by someone from Christchurch. An Auckland family is warning people to check their credit histories after scammers tried to take out of thousands of dollars in loans under their mother’s name. Shanil Sharma from Auckland’s Pakuranga said his mum, a 56-year-old retirement village care worker, nearly lost $37,000 to scammers. Sharma, 35, said the scammers applied for loans to several banks and a string of finance companies over a year, using his mother’s details.

Churches of Christ in Queensland must defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staff member (Minchio).

Australian Hearing and Balance Centre has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) on its legal plate in front of Fair Work Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers (Bailey).

Doutta Galla Aged Services Ltd is to face up to a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon in Court 5 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne (Sharma).

Ambulance Victoria is to account for a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claim being promulgated by an ex-staffer before Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Court 5 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne (Manika).