Thursday, 20 April 2023 09:07
GOVERNMENT MOVES TO FIX CEMETERIES
THE NSW Government started addressing the challenges around cemeteries and crematoria policy inherited from the previous government.
As a first step, the Minister for Lands and Property Steve Kamper announced a nationwide search to conduct an open recruitment process for a shared Administrator for four of Sydney’s Crown cemetery operators, collectively known as OneCrown.
The future of these four cemetery operators – Northern Metropolitan Cemeteries, Rookwood General Cemeteries, Rookwood Necropolis and Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries – has been in limbo for years due to the failure of the former government to decide their future.
Executive recruitment firm Meritos will undertake the open recruitment process for the Administrator.
“We’re looking for someone with commercial acumen and solid experience in people leadership, governance, financial and risk management to help us take the sector forward,” Mr Kamper said.
“In a return to more normal government practices, the role will be advertised nationally so the market can be properly tested and the best available candidate identified. The current administrator has been invited to apply.”
“For two years this process has been marred by procrastination and infighting, while the supply of available grave sites dwindled to alarming levels.”
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Sunday, 09 April 2023 09:18
Mario’s aiming at a world record with 56 hours of continuous podcast
SASWATI MUKHERJEE
COME April 29, 2023 and Western Sydney businessman Mario Bekes will attempt to create history and enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Sunday, 09 April 2023 09:11
NO FRAUD: GPs JUST STRUGGLE WITH MEDICARE
THE Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has expressed support for an independent review of Medicare non-compliance and has urged the Australian Government to offer more assistance for general practice care in the upcoming May Budget.
The review was conducted by Dr Pradeep Philip and found that leakage in the Medicare system is mainly due to non-compliance errors caused by the complex system, rather than deliberate fraud.
RACGP President Dr Nicole Higgins welcomed the report's findings, which cleared GPs of any allegations of Medicare rorting.
She said that GPs are struggling with a fiendishly complex Medicare Benefits Schedule and that an educative, rather than a punitive approach from the Health Department, would be more beneficial.
The RACGP is committed to working with the government to simplify the system and provide more support for general practice care.
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