Eight Sacked As Warilla Pathology Centre Closes

WARILLA'S SDS Pathology centre has closed its doors, leaving eight people out of work.

Job Surgery

HUNDREDS of Hunter health jobs could be lost or moved to the private sector as the State Government pursues health sector savings.

Healthscope Cleans Out Gribbles' Upper Ranks

A FORMER Australian Business Woman of the Year, Judith Slocombe, is one of several Gribbles Group executives to lose their jobs in a clean-out of senior ranks under new owner Healthscope.

Temporary Visa Holders Celebrate Community Support

When Iraqi-born medical student Alaa al-Alawy applied for a job with a pathology company, he was rejected.

Coast Right Move

A STRATEGIC MOVE to the Central Coast has given one export firm room to expand and bring even more jobs and business to the region.

Magistrate Cracks Whip Over Case

A Wollongong magistrate has questioned why it has taken four months to produce pathology and DNA results in the case against a Mt Ousley man charged with the murder of his adoptive mother.

Jobs And Careers With Technology

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Doctors Defend Lab Jobs

HUNTER doctors will fight to stop more skilled medical laboratory jobs from being lost to the region after it was revealed yesterday an unconfirmed 50 jobs will go at Hampson Pathology. A spokesman for Mayne Health, which owns Hampson, confirmed there would be some job losses when the company shi

The Company Doctor

THE corporatisation of general practice is one of the first issues to confront Dr Kerryn Phelps's Federal presidency. Around Australia, particularly in Perth, listed corporations have been buying general practices to run as businesses, offering the doctors jobs as employees. The doctors pocket a

Jobs In Works Projects

HUNTER businesses were likely to see positive spin-offs from allocations made in yesterday's State Budget, according to Newcastle and Hunter Business Chamber chief executive David Simmons. Mr Simmons said the Budget's significant commitment to capital expenditure and its promise to reduce payroll

Union Bans Hit Austin

Industrial action will affect patients at the Austin Repatriation Medical Centre this weekend after union talks with the Government yesterday failed to guarantee jobs when the hospital is privatised. More than 40 beds have already been closed and an additional one in five beds have been earmarke

Scientists Go On Strike Over Plans To Privatise Pathology

Services at the Royal Women's and Royal Children's hospitals will be disrupted today and some operations cancelled because of industrial action over the privatisation of pathology services. About 80 medical scientists are due to begin a 24-hour strike at 9am after voting to ignore an Australian I

197 Hospital Jobs May Go

A consultant's report earmarking 197 jobs to be slashed at Wollongong Hospital has staff and unions up in arms. They say there are already too few staff at the hospital, with previous staff cuts and the effects of natural attrition having cut a swathe through departments across the board. Th

Technology Makes Jobs Growth A Myth

This evening during a news broadcast we saw technology which will allow us to work from our cars, our pools and perhaps even our beds. Then in the parliamentary leaders' debate following, Mr Beazley mentioned "the days when we thought jobs would increase forever". When was this? 1950? How

Debt-hit Hospital Cuts Jobs

SOME Melbourne public hospitals are millions of dollars in debt and are drawing up tough budgets that will mean more cuts to services and staff. The Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre wants to shed 127 jobs to cut its debt, according to a confidential hospital document obtained by 'The Sund

Sustainable Growth, More Jobs, Higher Living Standards

This is an edited text of the Budget speech last night by the Treasurer, Mr Costello: TONIGHT I announce a program for families, for small business, for older Australians, for major improvements in health care and, importantly, a program to repair the nation's finances and secure our future. B

Public Service Jobs To Go

More than 2500 federal Public Service jobs would disappear under a coalition plan to slash the running costs of the bureaucracy by 2 per cent every year, but no one would get the sack. In a push to pare back the size of government, the coalition has also proposed big cuts in information technolo

Sacked Staff Say Labs Are Vital

When the faxed list of those to lose their jobs at the Benalla veterinary laboratory arrived on Friday, Judith Wilkie was almost relieved to see her name. Until then, Friday would have been the third time workers at the Benalla lab left for the weekend not knowing if they had a job to come back

Next Stop Paradise - Chasing The Queensland Dream

Each year tens of thousands of Victorians head north to Queensland in search of sunshine, jobs and better lives. Some fulfil their dreams, others lose them altogether. RICHARD YALLOP looks at the realities of life in the land of opportunity. Photographs by Mike Larder. ``Life will be better in o

Pathology Rorts Rising - Doctors

A DRAMATIC rise in the use of pathology services in the past year has sparked renewed allegations of widespread over-servicing and corruption in Australia's $1billion-a-year private pathology industry. Medicare benefits paid for pathology tests have risen by $70million to $703 million in the past