A nurse has been stood down from his hospital job in northern WA following an expletive-filled, racist rant on social media that threatened violence against children. On a Broome community Facebook page on Friday night, nurse Kevin Naughton responded to comments about children breaking into homes in the town. “Just f***ing bash them within an inch of their useless, worthless lives, they are nothing more than rats or cockroaches,” he wrote.
December 13, 2017
Blue Care & Smith and Others will front up to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Simpson in Hearing Room 2 in Brisbane at 2pm (Brady).
December 13, 2017
Australian Capital Territory (as represented by the Health Directorate) will fight a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) in front of Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers at 4.30 (Radulovic).
December 13, 2017
A 13-year-old boy died from an allergic reaction after eating breakfast at a Melbourne hospital, his mother has told an inquest, while a nurse has admitted his allergies were not properly recorded. The circumstances of his death, at Frankston Hospital in Melbourne’s outer south-east, is being investigated in the Coroners Court of Victoria.
December 13, 2017
The Islamic Society of Victoria Inc is still defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Bissett in Court 12 & Conference Room A – Level 5 in Melbourne (Abou-Eid).
December 13, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Resthaven Incorporated T/A Resthaven for its Resthaven Incorporated Allied Health Employees Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 12 December 2017.
December 13, 2017
Two Melbourne mums have been jailed for their “vicious” drunken bashing of a paramedic who was left with a broken foot and unable to return to work. Amanda Warren, 31, and Caris Underwood, 20, punched and kicked experienced ambulance worker Paul Judd as he and another paramedic tried to treat a patient at suburban Reservoir in April 2016. Mr Judd has needed three operations on his broken foot and has not been able to work since the attack, although he is determined to return. Warren and Underwood were both jailed in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday after they pleaded guilty to intentionally causing injury. After considering new laws for attacks on emergency workers, the magistrate jailed Warren for eight months and Underwood for four months.
December 13, 2017
The Trustee for The ARC Unit Trust has prepared a defence to a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy). Commissioner Cambridge in hearing Room 4 in Brisbane will hear the Edwards matter.
