Australian Government Department of Human Services will defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Vice President Catanzariti in Hearing Room 15-1 – Level 15 in Sydney at 2pm (Kelly).
January 22, 2018
Under pressure Far North paramedics are being called out about 190 times per day for everything from patient transfers to serious incidents, and numbers are expected to rise. Figures showed the Cairns and Hinterland Local Ambulance Service Network, which takes in the city, Cassowary Coast, Tablelands and Mossman areas, experienced one of the biggest jumps in workload in the state during 2017 with a total of 69,301 call outs. This was a rise of about 4000 – or 8 per cent – on the previous year.
January 22, 2018
Smoke from an airconditioner required a patient to be transferred to another room at a North Adelaide hospital. Firefighters responded to a smoke alarm activation at Calvary Hospital on Strangways Tce. They found two smoke logged rooms after patients were safely evacuated by hospital staff. Firefighters used breathing apparatus and imaging camera to investigate the source of the smoke. MFS is investigating if a fluorescent light or an electrical fault could be the cause of the smoke.
January 22, 2018
A Sydney pharmacist who spiked his married assistant’s drinks 23 times after she rejected his advances has been banned from practising pharmacy for at least four years by a NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. A judgment released on Monday found Yan Chi “Anthony” Cheung posed a significant threat to the health of members of the public and cancelled his pharmacy registration. The tribunal also prohibited him from preparing, obtaining or administering medicine until further notice. It comes after Cheung was convicted in Waverley Local Court of poisoning to injure or cause distress or pain and sentenced to a minimum jail term of 10 months in 2016. He was released on supervised parole in July last year and his sentence is due to expire in March. The hearing, which sat in October last year, found that Cheung had used his expertise to covertly sprinkle a selection of soluble, colourless sedatives, antidepressants and antipsychotic medication into his victim’s coffee and water after “his expressions of interest were rejected”. The tribunal heard he spiked the woman’s water with 50mg of the sedative Phenergan three times over as many weeks. He also administered 10mg of another sedative, doxylamine, up to twice a week for three months. Cheung gave evidence before the tribunal, claiming his decision to poison the woman, who he had met at an inner-city church two years prior, had nothing to do with a sexual fantasy, rather it had been because he “did not want to hear from her anymore” and “wanted to stop her complaining and to keep her quiet”. In police interviews following his arrest in May 2016, Cheung said he had “been infatuated with her for up to two years before giving (the victim) the lead in securing the position” as a pharmacy assistant at the Sydney University chemist where he worked. Court documents show Cheung started displaying disturbing behaviour, opening the woman’s mail at work, visiting her when she was alone at home and even accompanying her to a dental appointment without her consent. Their work relationship soured in April 2015 when she confronted him about the unwanted attention. The following month, Cheung began arriving at work early to crush up the medication to spike her beverages. After noticing a bitter taste in these drinks and experiencing numbness on her tongue, the victim asked to view the store’s CCTV footage, which Cheung unsuccessfully attempted to wipe from the system.
January 22, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Melbourne City Mission Inc for its Melbourne City Mission Health Professionals (Palliative Care) Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 19 January 2018.
January 22, 2018
A man has been found dead after a motorised buggy veered down a concrete embankment and into a creek in Melbourne’s east. Police believe the man was riding along the Scotchmans Creek Trail at Mount Waverley on Saturday when the buggy veered over a concrete embankment and into the water. When they arrived, police found the 52-year-old from Mount Waverley dead.
January 22, 2018
The Woodhaugh Hospital and Rest Home in North Dunedin has been evacuated after a fire in one of its bedrooms.
January 19, 2018
The second case of myrtle rust has been found at a New Plymouth retirement village. The fungal disease, which attacks various species of plants in the myrtle family, such as pōhutukawa, mānuka and rātā, has been found at the Summerset Mountain View retirement village in New Plymouth.
