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A young mother who allegedly killed an aged care nurse while driving on a suspended licence and high on prohibited drugs has been granted bail in the Supreme Court. Mother-of-one, Bianca Harrington cried throughout her bail hearing in which it was revealed police will allege the 20-year-old had a cocktail of illicit drugs in her system when she crashed head-on into a vehicle being driven by aged care nurse Kay Shaylor, 62, on Mann St Gosford about 6am on September 3. The crash killed the older woman.

Fair Work Commission has endorsed the application of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for its Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Enterprise Agreement 2016

Australian Medical Association (Act) Limited is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) launched by an ex staffer Ozilinis.

The Fair Work Commission has approved the Healthscope – Tasmania – Nurses – Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020.

The model formerly known as Kate Fischer has lashed out at her ex, billionaire James Packer, asking him to leave her alone – 18 years after he broke off their engagement and paid her millions of dollars to keep the details secret. “James Packer will do anything to continue to be associated with me!” she claimed last week in a post on her Facebook page, after Woman’s Day published an exclusive story about her modest new life in Melbourne working as a therapist in an aged care health facility.

The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Mary Ogilvy Homes Society Nursing & Non-Nursing Staff Agreement 2016.

Commonwealth prosecutors have this morning closed their case in the trial of a Hobart woman accused of wrongfully claiming a disability support pension for more than a decade. Jane Ellen Gluschke, 57, has been charged with 11 counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception and four of defrauding the Commonwealth over a 14-year period from 1994. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the Supreme Court. Prosecutor Ian Arendt claimed Ms Gluschke actively hid profits she made from her home-based alternative medicine business from Centrelink officials in order to keep receiving the disability pension.

The Fair Work Commission has agreed to stamp an application by Calvary Retirement Communities Hunter-Manning Ltd T/A Calvary Retirement Community Cessnock Ltd for its Calvary Retirement Community (New South Wales) and the New South Wales Nurses’ Association/ANF – NSW Branch Nursing Staff Enterprise Agreement 2016.