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This website will allow grieving families to find their voice. The aim here is to put corporate crime on the agenda and keep it there until the big end of town understand they can not at the will of profit, put their workers lives at risk!
The Tribute pages will allow you to enter into the heart and soul of workplace statistics
and see the damage done to those left behind. Many pages are still very much a 'work
in progress'. This journey is hard enough to think about -
I hope for a moment you will try to move out of your comfort zone and into the hearts and minds of the people that are not only trying to grieve but also just stay in one piece as they wade through the legislative compost.
What makes this so much more painful for families is that corporate crime seems to be considered far less significant than a crime committed by an individual. Many families are left in ruin as the corporate entity, often times wealthy and very influential, walks away from court after being found guilty, with a slap on the wrist and a pitiful fine.
If you think this doesn't apply to you, think again. With cheap imports flooding our shores...and with big international entities buying up the countries resources the focus is on the bottom line! Make no mistake, when it comes to dollars and cents, our Government bows to the pressure of our corporate muscle. With all the best intentions in the world, the worker within the workplace will always come a poor second to the almighty dollar.
What we do here is give power to the voice of the dead through their families.
We want Government and Industry to stop using terms like ‘hindsight’ and ‘unfortunate
mishap’. We want the Government to govern -
Date: 17th March 2010
Update: Statistics and Fatalities By Year
Update: Diary Notes 2010
Date: 14/03/2010
Website Upgrade
Date: 12/12/2009
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Update -
Date: 25th June 2009
TRIBUTE -
Date: 22nd June 2009
TRIBUTE -
TRIBUTE -
Update -
Date: 6th June 2009
We’ve reached 5 years and it’s every bit as agonising today as it was ½ a decade ago. Today we remember Daniel Madeley.
Date: 10th May 2009
Diary Notes -
Date: 9th May 2009
We’re thinking of the families of the boys killed at Gladstone this weekend. I can’t think of a more harrowing Mother’s Day ... Our thoughts are with you all.
Lee and Carol Salvemini and family have made it through week 1 of the trial in relation to Jack’s death. Hang in there...
Date: 1st May 2009
The SAIRC fined Normetals $52,000 for failing their duty of care in relation to the death of truck driver Brian Murphy (see court information below for judgement).
The International Memorial Day for 2009 was another experience worth remembering. Article a little later...
Court Report PART 1 -
Date 24/04/2009
We remember Charles Hiscock on April 24th.
Date 20/04/2009
Update SAIRC Court -
International Workers’ Memorial Day posters and information now available on line.
Date: 10/04/2009
We remember Craig McAlister on April 10th. Please also note Court Date change for Diemould Tooling Services. Email sent to advise people of the International Workers Memorial Day Programme.
Date 28/03/2009
Date: 27/03/2009
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Date: 20/03/2009
Edith Logan reports on the WorkCover Stakeholder Meetings. You can follow these
reports by clicking on the Government link above and then the WorkCover link -
Date: 10/02/2009
Date: 01/12/2008
Date: 22/11/2008
Diary Entries (long overdue) -
Mercury Rising -
Date: 20/08/2008
Matthew Keeley -
Date: 31/07/2008
NEW TRIBUTE PAGE -
23rd November 2009 -
GLADSTONE Matthew Keeley -
13th July 2009 -
Charges laid against two employers will continue at trial after various delays in legal arguments have been sorted through.
26th June 2009 -
The penalties against Diemould Tooling Services will be handed down under presiding Magistrate Hardy.
4th May 2009 -
Charges laid against two employers will be argued in the SAIRC
30th April 2009 -
The penalties against Normetals Pty Ltd will be handed down
23rd April 2009 -
Charges laid against Diemould Tooling Services will now be heard in the SAIRC after an unsuccessful High Court Appeal
25th March 2009 -
Charges laid against the employer Normetals Pty Ltd will be heard in the SAIRC
16th March 2009 -
Gladstone
15th December 2008 -
After the the Magistrate found Port Pirie’s smelter Zinifex guilty of failing their duty of care, the penalty will now be decided.
28th November 2008 -
The penalty for Cox Constructions and SSL Lifts will be handed down in the SAIRC (note: SSL entered no plea and did not attend the hearing)
13th November 2008 -
Diemould Tooling Services and SANTOS Ltd were denied appeal to the High Court after failing to win the matter in the Supreme Court. Both matters will now return to the Industrial Courts.
7th November 2008 -
Mark Crompton
Premier Road lines were convicted and fined for failing their duty of care under the OHS&W Act.
29th October 2008 -
Cox Constructions have entered a guilty plea -
15th October 2008 -
17th September 2008 -
25th July 2008 -
The Magistrate will hand down his decision against Zinifex Pty Ltd in relation to the evidence heard at trial in May.
23rd July 2008 -
17th July 2008 SUPREME COURT -
Chief Justice John Doyle and Justices' White and Gray handed down their decision on the technical arguments lodged by team Diemould / SANTOS
30th May 2007 -
14th May 2007 -
12th and 13th May -
The Crown and Zinifex Pty Ltd will begin to argue the evidence in relation to the death of Greg Sleep.
5th and 6th May 2008 SUPREME COURT
Diemould Tooling Services and SANTOS Ltd take their technical argument regarding the wording of S19 (OHS&W Act) to the Supreme Court of SA.
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