A teen has watched on as his aged care nursing mother was sentenced to jail after adding more marks to her “lengthy and disturbing” criminal history. Constantly looking back at her son sitting in the gallery of the Maroochydore Magistrates Court, Laura Christine Auld, 39, today pleaded guilty to single counts of drug driving, drink driving, stealing and two counts of disqualified driving. The court heard on July 10, Auld – who was described by Magistrate Matthew McLaughlin as having an “obvious drug problem” – stole groceries from Mt Coolum IGA with two of her sons in tow. When asked by staff to show them her bag, Auld ran away with $50 worth of stock including cosmetics and energy drinks. During a later police interview, she told officers she couldn’t remember the incident. On August 20, Auld was pulled over by police on Amarina Ave, Mooloolaba while disqualified and after drinking three schooners of heavy beer, putting her over the limit. Then, on November 29, she was caught driving disqualified yet again in Marcoola, but this time with methamphetamines in her system. Auld’s licence was disqualified in May last year, after she’d previously had a disqualification lifted in 2013 when she convinced a court she’d turned her life around. Lawyer Lachlan Ygoa-McKeown told the court his client was a single mother and had recently divorced her husband due to his incarceration. Auld was fined $500 and disqualified for six months for each count of drug and drink driving and was further fined $550 for stealing. She was sentenced to three and six months for each count of disqualified driving and banned from driving for another four years. Mr McLaughlin ordered her prison term be suspended after one month, for an operational period of three years. Auld was permitted to hug her son goodbye before she was taken into custody.
January 9, 2018
An occupant is trapped in a vehicle in an accident on Tooloora Rd at Tin Can Bay. The rollover is believe to have occurred at Cooloola Waters Retirement Village and involves a single vehicle.
January 9, 2018
Medication has been stolen from an ambulance while it was out on a job in West Kempsey on the state’s mid north coast. Two ambulances were sent to a job in West Kempsey in the early hours of Sunday and while one was transporting the patient to hospital, the other was broken into, police say. The theft and damage caused to the ambulance are being investigated, while the public is being warned of the dangers of taking medication that hasn’t been prescribed to them by a doctor.
January 8, 2018
Police last night arrested a woman in connection with the alleged abduction of an elderly nursing home resident. Wheelchair-bound Dimitra Pavlopoulou, 97, was located at 9.30pm, almost 10 hours after being allegedly taken from her Clarinda nursing home. Police earlier in the day released security camera footage of a woman wheeling Ms Pavlopoulou, who has dementia, speaks limited English and cannot walk on her own. Her granddaughter, Tina Makarios, had made an emotional plea for her safe return, saying her family did not know who the woman was. Ms Makarios posted on social media: “My giagia is completely disabled from old age. She needs her medication.” Ms Pavlopoulou was found at a Cheltenham property and was taken to hospital as a precaution. A 51-year-old Cheltenham woman has been arrested and was last night being questioned by the police.
January 8, 2018
Welcome to 2018. Today we list all decisions, outcomes, reviews and cases heard or determined in every tribunal since December 21, 2017.
January 8, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Community Housing Canberra Limited for its CHC Enterprise Agreement 2017-2021 has been approved by Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Melbourne on 5 January 2018.
January 8, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Waikerie Community Senior Citizens Home Inc for its Waikerie Community Senior Citizens Home Inc Aged Care Sector Employees Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Deputy President Gostencnik in Melbourne on 5 January 2018.
January 8, 2018
Ambulance Victoria is dealing with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Wilson in Court 6 – Level 6 in Melbourne (Petrasek).
