A 92-year-old woman with dementia had a teddy bear thrown in her face and her legs dropped onto a bed railing by two carers at a Perth aged care facility, a court has been told. Luz Ando Freeman and Glenda Lua are on trial in the Perth Magistrates Court charged with repeatedly assaulting Jean Robins at Morrison Lodge in Midland between September 20 and October 3, 2016. The alleged incidents were captured by a covert camera Ms Robins’s son had installed in her room after she broke her leg in a fall, to try to work out why she kept falling from her bed. Her physical and mental condition had deteriorated after she broke her femur in June 2016. Prosecutor Nicholas Van Hattem told the court Ms Robins was “difficult to care for”, but Ms Freeman and Ms Lua’s use of “excessive force” was not justified, and caused “unnecessary pain and discomfort” to the elderly woman. Ms Freeman is facing seven counts of aggravated common assault and Ms Lua has been charged with five counts. The trial has been set down for four days.
March 27, 2018
St Vincent’s Private Hospitals Ltd has to deal with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers at 3pm (Bolitho/Castles).
March 27, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Presbyterian Aged Care, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 23 march 2018.
March 27, 2018
A Townsville doctor has been remanded in custody after being charged with eight counts of rape and perverting the course of justice. The man did not appear in the Townsville Magistrates Court on Saturday when the matter was briefly mentioned. It is understood the man’s lawyer was not available to make any application for bail so the matter was adjourned until today.
March 27, 2018
A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) from Lee Hostel Committee Inc T/A Lee Hostel Committee Incorporated for its Lee Hostel Committee Inc, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been ratified by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 22 March 2018.
March 26, 2018
More than 50 aged care residents in Victoria’s southwest have been relocated over concerns about toxic smoke following bushfires. Relief centres have also been established at Terang and Cobden, and residents are encouraged to check in with health authorities over the smoke from peat fires expected to burn for weeks. The relocation of aged care residents from Cobden came as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited the town on Sunday one week after bush and grass fires destroyed 26 homes, 63 sheds and thousands of livestock.
March 26, 2018
Wesley Mission Queensland is in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers at 1.30pm (Lee).
March 26, 2018
A s.159 (Alteration of other rules of organisation) application from the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation has been approved by Murray Furlong in Melbourne on 13 March 2018.
