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A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Lendlease Services Pty Limited T/A Lendlease Services for its Lendlease Services Pty Limited and ETU Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 has been ratified by Fair Work Commissioner Wilson sitting in Melbourne on 19 July 2018.

The Supreme Court judge who convicted aged-care worker Garry Steven Davis of murdering two elderly residents and attempting to murder a third applied “backwards reasoning” to come to the conclusion that one person was responsible for the SummitCare Wallsend nursing home killings, according to documents filed with the Court of Criminal Appeal. Davis, 30, was jailed for a maximum of 40 years with a non-parole of 30 years in December, 2016 after he was found guilty of the murder of Gwen Fowler, 83, and Ryan Kelly, 80, and the attempted murder of Audrey Manuel, 91, after a four-week judge-alone trial in the Newcastle Supreme Court. It was reported in August last year that Davis’ legal team, led by solicitor Mark Ramsland, had lodged a notice of intention to appeal the convictions to the Court of Criminal Appeal, obtained Legal Aid NSW funding and enlisted the service of barrister Graham Turnbull, SC. And today the matter will be mentioned for the first time in the Court of Criminal Appeal, where it is expected to get a hearing date in October.

Cardiologist Sam Wilson was the doctor who secretly filmed women in a toilet at Nelson Hospital. The High Court on Thursday rejected Wilson’s continued bid for name suppression over the secret filming of colleagues at the hospital and two visitors to his home between 2012 and 2014. Wilson, through his lawyers, issued a public apology for the pain and distress that his “selfish and foolish” actions had caused. The doctor resigned from the hospital after being charged in 2015, and is no longer working as a medical practitioner. He is also being investigated by the Medical Council and is likely to face disciplinary action.

Victorian patients will benefit from more than 600 additional nurses and midwives under the Andrews Government’s proposed amendments to the Safe Patient Care Act 2015. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch) has welcomed the proposed amendments which trigger the first new ratio introductions and improvements since 2007 and is urging all Victorian parliamentarians to pass the Bill.

A man who sparked a hospital evacuation when he took a sawn-off rifle and a pipe bomb into Royal Perth Hospital was found guilty yesterday of possessing a firearm, ammunition and an explosive.

A man who allegedly wrestled a gun from a police officer and opened fire while under guard at a hospital in Canberra has been charged with attempted murder.

Anglicare Community Service has to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers (Dau).

Ngaruma & Yindjibarndi Foundation has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) listed for hearing by Fair Work Deputy President Binet in the Karratha Courthouse Balmoral Street, Karratha WA (Nestorovska).