Masonic Care Tasmania chief executive Daniel Findley has won the national Australian HR Institute Lynda Gratton CEO Award. This award recognises chief executives achieving positive results for their organisation through best-practice people management.
January 23, 2019
A Melbourne doctor has alleged police assaulted her after she sought to help a barely conscious and bleeding man who was surrounded by officers in April 2018 — and that they then covered up the brutality. Kim Proudlove, a stepmother of three who specialises in helping people with brain injuries, has spoken publicly about her ordeal and frustration with the Victoria Police complaints system. Dr Proudlove does not fit the profile of the Victorians most likely to report an adverse experience with police — vulnerable or marginalised people less able to navigate the police complaint system. She is an experienced doctor with a track record of helping people in need, including a cyclist and pedestrian badly injured in traffic accidents.
January 23, 2019
A Victorian man has admitted to slashing an off-duty paramedic with a box cutter during a violent crime spree which ended when he was spotted loitering outside a nearby police station carrying the weapon. Adam Bardic, 48, of Capel Sound, attacked the woman as she buckled her two young children into their car seats after picking up fish and chips for dinner in Rosebud, on the Mornington Peninsula, on her way home from work last July. The then-47-year-old was in uniform when Bardic grabbed her shoulder and pressed his arm across her neck to pin her against her car before slashing her twice across her chest. The box cutter sliced through her jumper and shirt to inflict a wound about 15 centimetres long, according to court documents. According to a police summary, Bardic “walked casually away” as the woman yelled for help and compressed her chest wound. She called triple zero and was taken to hospital where she received 15 stitches. The woman told police she believed she might have treated her attacker about 18 months earlier, but was not certain. Bardic, who was seen inhaling from a plastic bag, had earlier tried to get into another car parked behind his victim’s, but the driver had locked the doors before he had been able to gain entry, according to court documents.
January 21, 2019
The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) on its legal plate before Deputy President lake in his Brisbane chambers (Bennett).
January 21, 2019
Up to 80 jobs will be on offer for intellectually disabled people over the next two years at a packing factory at Wacol. The Endeavour Foundation is currently recruiting.
January 18, 2019
A shocked mother in her 40s from inner Sydney has been revealed as the winner of a record-breaking $100 million Powerball jackpot. The winner, a healthcare worker, said she wouldn’t be retiring and would share her winnings with her family.
January 18, 2019
A s.768AX (Application to vary copied State instruments) involving the National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency T/A National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has been allowed by Fair Work Deputy President Hamilton in Melbourne on 16 January 2019. On 27 November 2018, the National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency T/A the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) lodged an application under s.768AX of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) to vary a copied State instrument covering a new employer and transferring employees. The NDIA sought to vary the terms of the Public Service Award 1992 (the Award) insofar as it applies to them. The Award is registered by the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission and has a nominal expiry date of 2 December 1995. As a result of the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Western Australia, approximately 150 Western Australian Government employees (the transferring employees) are to be employed by the NDIA. Mark Perica, Senior Legal Officer of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) (SPSF Group), acting on behalf of the CPSU (SPSF Group), the Civil Service Association of Western Australia Incorporated (CSAWA) and its members, some of whom are affected employees, filed submissions in support of the application.
January 18, 2019
Life Without Barriers is still fighting a protracted s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in his Sydney chambers (King).
