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A Gippsland farmer and former Labor candidate has been forced to resign from a local hospital board after being exposed sending “offensive” screeds on Twitter. The state government confirmed on Wednesday night that John Anderson, a director of Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon had resigned after Health Minister Jill Hennessy intervened.

Canberra Hospital has cancelled all outpatient services and elective surgeries after a switchboard fine cut power to parts of the campus.

An urgent investigation has been launched into a northern suburbs aged care facility amid claims of neglect after an elderly resident contracted the contagious skin disease scabies. A member of the woman’s family says he’s unaware whether action has been taken to protect dozens of other residents currently living in the Aboriginal Elders Village at Davoren Park in Adelaide.

An application for approval of the Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery Inc Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is the preserve of Commissioner Saunders in his Sydney chambers at 12.30pm.

TSA (Vic) Property Trust as Trustee the Salvation Army (Vic) Social Work is fighting a trio of (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy) from Bokori-Mayman, Ewels and Talarico.

An application by Health Services Union (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) is on the desk of Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms G & H – Level 6 in Melbourne at 3pm.

The Health Services Union and The Department of Health and Human Services are embroiled in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute).

An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) is to be reviewed by Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms G & H – Level 6 in Melbourne at 10.30am.