‘BULLYING in the professions’ is the topic in spotlight for former Victorian health minister Rob Knowles’ keynote speech in an Albert Coates Memorial Trust luncheon next week.
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Mr Knowles, who grew up in Ballarat, chaired the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ inquiry into concerns of a bullying and harassment culture in Australian hospitals last year.
The panel’s findings, released late last year, nearly half of the college’s specialists had been affected by discrimination, bullying or sexual harassment.
Mr Knowles is the Royal Children’s Hospital chairman and also serves on the National Mental Health Commission.
Albert Coates Memorial Trust sponsors a number of student and young achiever award and offers scholarships for rural emergency care nurses in post-graduate training. The Trust also hosts a free oration with a noted speaker each year with Federation University.
This luncheon is part of the Trust’s program to keep promoting the story of war hero Sir Albert Coates, who grew up in Mount Pleasant. Sir Albert served in WWI across Egypt, Gallipoli and Flanders as a medical orderly and later with the Intelligence Corps. He was a master surgeon and leader as a Japanese prisoner in WWII, working in camps along the Burma Railway.
Sir Albert was a mentor to Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop.
Albert Coates Memorial Trust luncheon is on Wednesday, March 16 at Ballarat Yacht Club, from noon.
Details, call Shirley on 0434 540 171.
