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An application for approval of the Yooralla Allied Services Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne chambers today.

Gordon Ballantyne says setting up Telstra Health whetted his appetite for the broader health sector but, in taking the top job at Healthscope, he has switched from a disrupter to an incumbent, defending weak earnings growth and share price disappointment. The well regarded former Telstra executive lost out in the race in 2015 to succeed David Thodey as chief executive.

Drayton Villas Retirement Village has a new village manager (Scott Burton).

An application for approval of the Hill View Aged Care Operational Staff Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne Chambers at noon.

A Singaporean man who worked as a nurse in Melbourne has admitted waking up a patient and sexually assaulting her by applying cream to her genitals. Jefferson Augustine, 34, appeared before the Victorian County Court on Monday after earlier pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three women between 2015 and 2016, including a patient at the hospital where he worked.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by South Eastern Nursing and Home Care Association Inc T/A South Eastern Community Care for its South Eastern Community Care Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 3 April 2017.

Dozens of staff will be shifted from Flinders Medical Centre and the Repatriation General Hospital to new offices in Tonsley as Transforming Health changes put a squeeze on space. Staff have been told 120 non-clinical staff will be shifted to the new offices off-site starting from April 10 as Repat services are moved to FMC and the site is prepared for sale.

The Health Services Union-New South Wales Branch and The Trustee For Lifehouse Australia Trust are duelling over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute).