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A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by CV Whalley Drive Aged Care Pty Ltd T/A Cumberland View for the Cumberland View Aged Services Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2018 (Social, community, home care and disability services) has been ratified by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Adelaide on 17 April 2019.

Aged-care double murderer Garry Steven Davis being driven into Newcastle police station after his arrest in 2014. He was found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder after a trial in Newcastle Supreme Court in 2016. It was a case that gripped the Hunter; an aged-care nurse convicted of murdering two elderly residents and attempting to murder a third by injecting them with large doses of insulin over a weekend in October, 2013. Garry Steven Davis was found guilty of all counts after a four-week judge alone trial, sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in jail and then had his conviction appeal dismissed in the Court of Criminal Appeal. And now lawyers for Davis are preparing to take the case to the High Court of Australia in a final bid to overturn the convictions or have a new trial ordered. It’s believed the grounds of appeal will be similar to what Davis’s lawyers argued in the Court of Criminal Appeal, that Justice Robert Alan Hulme, who found Davis guilty in 2016, used a process of “backwards reasoning”, reversing the onus of proof and leaving Davis as “the last man standing” after other suspects had been eliminated. But the High Court does not just hear any appeal. Those who wish to have a matter heard in the final court of appeal, must first persuade the court in a preliminary hearing that there are special reasons for the appeal to be heard. If approved, the appeal goes before a full court hearing in Canberra. Davis’s lawyers, spearheaded by solicitor Mark Ramsland, have been granted Legal Aid funding to prepare submissions for a High Court of Australia appeal and have engaged the services of barrister Belinda Rigg, SC.

The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia has appointed Mohammad Al-Khafaji as CEO.

Masonic Care Tasmania has appointed Jackie Howard as its new CEO.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Uniting Communities Incorporated T/A Uniting Communities for its Uniting Communities Nursing Employees & ANMF-SA Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Sydney on 17 April 2019.

Axtens & Urquhart and Another and Western Victoria Primary Health Care Network & Fuse Advisory will debate a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner in Court 5 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Hyperbaric Pty Ltd are in s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) stoush before Fair Work Commissioner Yilmaz in Court 7 – Level 6 and Conference Room F – Level 6 in Melbourne today.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) Limited have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) to debate before Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Court 12 – Level 5 and Conference Room A – Level 5 in Melbourne.