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The Alliance Care Management as the Trustee for the Abbey Gardens Unit Trust T/A The Trustee for the Abbey Gardens Unit Trust application for its Alliance Care Management Pty Ltd as the Trustee for the Abbey Gardens Unit Trust Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on the 2 February 2017.

Nurses working at Princess Margaret Hospital have warned they will boycott the new children’s hospital unless the State Government can prove the lead in water has gone. Australian Nursing Federation State secretary Mark Olson said today that hundreds of nurses had responded to a union survey, in which 95 per cent made it clear they did not want to work at the Perth Children’s Hospital until they were satisfied the lead issue had been completely resolved.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by the National Health and Medical Research Council for its National Health and Medical Research Council Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 has been granted by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra.

The doctor who accused his patient of trying to extort money from him after she gave him oral sex in a consultation room has been banned from practising medicine and told he cannot apply to practise again for at least five years. Vipin Lal’s long-term patient, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was cleared of trying to blackmail him after a District Court trial in 2015. A recent judgment from the State Administrative Tribunal led to Dr Lal being struck of the medical register. SAT president Justice Jeremy Curthoys said that “no penalty short of removal from the register is sufficient to mark the disapproval of the conduct, or bring home to Dr Lal, the magnitude of his failings, or adequately protect the public.”

Martin Forde has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that he should be given more time to pursue Tooth Booth Pty Ltd T/A Tooth Booth Dental Lounge for an unfair dismissal payout.

Some South Australian nurses will be trained to provide colonoscopies to people at a low risk of bowel cancer so the disease can be caught early more often. The state government says it is investing $1.7 million on the project, involving nurses performing the process under supervision from a specialist doctor.

Eureka Operation Pty Ltd is set to defend a s.394(Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in his Melbourne chambers today (Kumar).

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Ararat Retirement Village Inc. T/A Gorrinn Village for its Ararat Retirement Village Inc. (Gorrin Village), ANMF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2014 has been granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on the 2 February 2017.