Close to 40 Paradise senior citizens have successfully told a steel manufacturing company across the road to pipe down its “excessive noise emissions”. Strangio Structural Steel was handed a compliance notice by Campbelltown Council following complaints from 36 residents at the Paradise Gardens Independent Leisure Living retirement village across the street on Gorge Rd. They put their names to a petition with 55 signatures which was presented to the council on March 6. It read Strangio Structural Steel’s “extremely loud noise, with echoing, banging, crashing and grinding sounds throughout the day” was annoying nearby residents from as early as 6am on weekdays and Saturdays. Strangio Structural Steel managing director Dom Strangio said he would comply. “We should not have been working from 6am,” he said. “We will now start at 7am.
March 23, 2018
When her mother went into a nursing home, Arwa Valmi Dolar ended up homeless. The 41-year-old woman had been the full-time carer for her mother before she was placed into aged care. Dolar, who has schizophrenia, appeared on two trespass type charges in Rockhampton Magistrates Court last week, plus one of public nuisance and fail to appear. Police prosecutor Jess King said police were called to a Campbell St address on October 25 to deal with two people illegally sleeping in a vacant property. DNA left on beer cans at a Murray St address between July 2-16 led to Dolar’s second trespass charge. Defence lawyer Zoe Craven said Dolar was diagnosed with schizophrenia more than 15 years ago and received treatment until she became homeless. She said Dolar ended up homeless after her mother’s illness worsened, requiring care in a nursing home. Dolar was charged with public nuisance after being caught swearing loudly in Fortitude Valley. When police asked her name, she responded with a profanity. She was sentenced to nine months’ probation and fined $450.
March 23, 2018
Coast Shelter chief executive officer Laurie Maher will step down from the role he has held for more than 25 years.
March 23, 2018
The Urban Development Institute of Australia has appointed former Master Builders ACT executive director Kirk Coningham as national executive director.
March 23, 2018
Outgoing Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) chief executive Gillian Bremner was thanked yesterday at an event marking almost a quarter century at the helm of the organisation. Mrs Bremner was finishing up her last week in the role before departing for Botswana at the end of April, where husband Graeme had been appointed associate professor at a university in the town of Palapye.
March 22, 2018
A Bundaberg paramedic has died while abseiling in New Zealand. Verena Jantje Kuhl, known as Jantje, fell 100m to her death near Arthur’s Pass, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand’s South Island, on Sunday afternoon. Ms Kuehl, aged in her 30s, started work as an advanced care paramedic and flight paramedic in Bundaberg in 2014 with the Wide Bay Local Ambulance Service Network.
March 22, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Australian Red Cross Blood Service (a division of the Australian Red Cross Society) T/A Australian Red Cross Blood Service for its Australian Red Cross Blood Service Queensland Nursing Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 21 March 2018.
March 22, 2018
Medibank Private Garrison Health Services is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) claim before Deputy President Clancy in Court 11 and Conference Room A – Level 5 in Melbourne at 4pm (Kinross).
