Michael Monaghan has joined the board of Australian Ethical as a non-executive director, in addition to his current board roles with big data start-up Alpha Vista Financial Services and aged care provider HammondCare.
September 25, 2017
Spectrum Community Focus Limited is facing a (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy) complaint which will be heard by Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Hearing Room 15-1 – level 15 in Sydney (Valenzuela).
September 25, 2017
Specialist Diagnostic Services Pty Ltd T/A QML Pathology has had its QML Pathology Enterprise Agreement 2017 application approved.
September 25, 2017
An application by Health Services Union (s.229 – Application for a bargaining order) will fall to Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne for a decision.
September 25, 2017
Senior SA State Government executive Veronica Theriault has been arrested, charged and sacked for alleged dishonesty amid bizarre claims she used multiple identities, faked a CV and lied to get her job. The Government dumped the top public servant in charge of sensitive computer services amid fears it is the victim of an elaborate Hollywood-style scam. Department of Premier and Cabinet staff were told in July that a woman named Veronica Theriault would become chief information officer, a position that pays up to $244,000 a year. It can be revealed she was sacked, just seven weeks after starting on August 3, and has now been charged by police with offences related to dishonesty. The department has launched an urgent review of its hiring processes.
September 25, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Mater Misericordiae Limited T/A Mater Group for its Mater Health Practitioners’ Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 has been granted by Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 22 September 2017.
September 25, 2017
A heart surgeon who died after he was punched outside a hospital in Melbourne’s east had to be restrained as he was thrashing about after the attack, a court has been told. Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann, 41, died in hospital four weeks after he was punched in the head in the foyer of Box Hill Hospital on May 30. Joseph Esmaili, 22 of Mill Park, has appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court via video link charged over the death. The court was told Mr Pritzwald-Stegmann, a father of two, was bleeding from the nose and tried to get up after the attack. Defence barrister John Desmond said treating doctors noted Mr Pritzwald-Stegmann was agitated and disorientated and he was not able to be placed onto a spinal board. The court heard one witness, a security officer, said he had to help restrain the surgeon as he was thrashing about as he was being taken to the emergency department. In a previous court hearing, police said they believed the surgeon was attacked following an argument with the accused over smoking near the hospital. The incident was captured on CCTV. Six doctors will be among the witnesses to give evidence at a committal hearing scheduled for February 12. Esmaili was remanded in custody.
September 25, 2017
The South Australian RSL has taken another small step in its long road to recovery by appointing a chief executive. Corey Starkey has signed an 18-month contract to manage the state branch until well beyond the next board election in July. Mr Starkey, 41, has been appointed after — in an interim role — steering the branch through financial strife and damaging internal division. Uncertainty surrounding who would run the state RSL has swirled since former chief executive Julia Langrehr resigned in January.
