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Mallee Accommodation & Support Program Ltd T/A MASP has succeeded in persuading the Fair Work Commission to endure its Mallee Accommodation & Support Program Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2016 application.

An application for approval of the De Paul Villa Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Simpson in Hearing Room 2 in Brisbane.

Dr Allan Clarke is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Spencer in his Brisbane Chambers (Ham).

A nursing home resident missing for more than 24 hours in Devonport has been found alive and well after spending the night in nearby bush. Geoffrey Cecil Best, 68, left the Karingal nursing home for a regular walk at 8:00am on Friday. The alarm was raised when he failed to return and police feared he may have become disorientated. Police and SES crews searched bushland near the home. They say he was located about 12.30pm but no other details are available.

Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s chief of staff Ben Myers has been appointed as the new executive director for retirement living at the Property Council of Australia.

A staff member hid in a nurses’ station during a dementia patient’s violent outburst which led to another patient’s death, an Adelaide inquest has heard. Coroner Mark Johns is investigating the death of 93-year-old Dorothy Mavis Baum, who was attacked at St Basil’s Nursing Home at Christie Downs in 2012. Dementia sufferer Rozalia Setalo, 85, had gone on a rampage, using a plastic chain and her walking frame as weapons, the inquest heard. Registered nurse Ute Latz, who was the main staff member assigned to care for residents in the wing, has given evidence to the coroner, who criticised her long pauses and failure to answer questions audibly and adequately. “I would ask you to speed up your responses because you are wasting the court’s time,” Mr Johns said. “Dragging this out isn’t going to make it any better.” Ms Latz told the inquest today she and a nursing home resident locked themselves in a nurses’ station after Ms Selato assaulted them in a hallway. The coroner was told Ms Latz left Ms Selato unsupervised for up to 15 minutes while she called triple-0 and looked after the injured resident she was with. Ms Latz conceded under questioning she had failed to check the welfare of other residents.

The Bennett Aged Care Group is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by an ext staffer (Westerholm).

The Health Services Union and Eskleigh Foundation Inc are bogged in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cirkovic in Melbourne.