NEWS-HR

A s.189 (Arrangement for conduct of an election) application by The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has been granted by Mr Enright in Melbourne.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Alfred Health will call on Vice President Catanzariti in Hearing Room 15-1 – Level 15 in Sydney to adjudicate their dispute.

An application by Health Services Union for a s.437 (Application for a protected action ballot order) is the preserve of Deputy President Wells in Hearing Room 11-2 – Level 11 in Sydney at 10.30am.

Kangaroo Islanders may remember their former general practitioner Greg Crawford who left Kangaroo Island in 1997 to specialise in palliative medicine, after 12 years in practice on the Island with Drs Bruce Alcorn and Peter Jeffries. Greg is now a Senior Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Director of Research and Education with Northern Adelaide Palliative Service (NAPS) and has just been promoted to Professor of Palliative Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide.

Churches of Christ Community Care in NSW is to defend a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-6 and Conference Room 11C – Level 11 in Sydney at 4pm (Gordon).

Apollo Bay locals want to see the Otway Health chief executive and board replaced with an independent administrator, saying the town’s shortage of overnight GPs has tarnished their confidence in the healthcare provider. More than 140 residents gathered for an emergency public meeting this week to address the void left by the retirement of the town’s on-call GP, Mani Kutti, earlier this month. In a vote of 128 to nine, attendees resolved the Apollo Bay community had “lost confidence in the capacity of the CEO and the board of Otway Health to provide vital quality health services to the community”. They urged the State Government to replace the board with “a suitably qualified administrator with detailed knowledge of the local community, for two years, in order to restore the health services which the community requires”.

Independence Ulladulla Inc is to face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney today.

Allity Pty Ltd has been served with a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) by Suhr.