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A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Adria Village Ltd for the Adria Village Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been granted by Commissioner Johns sitting in Sydney on 13 June 2018.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by the Adelaide Unicare Pty Ltd as trustee for the Unihealth Research & Development Trust T/A Minlaton Medical Centre for the Minlaton Medical Centre Nursing Employees & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been granted by Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on 13 June 2018.

An application by Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be hard by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Seventh-day Adventist Aged Care (Victoria) Ltd T/A AdventCare for its Seventh -Day Adventist Aged Care (Victoria) Pty Ltd and (Trading as AdventCare), ANMF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Melbourne on 14 June 2018.

A Hobart man who stole $280,000 from his sick and widowed mother aged in her 90s, leaving her unable to pay her nursing homes fees, has been sentenced to almost three years’ jail. Ronald Peter Walker, 71, was given the power of attorney over the estate of his mother, Rena Walker, in June 2009 after she was assessed as having dementia and no longer capable of looking after herself. The Hobart Supreme Court heard that in the week between Walker being given power over his mother’s affairs and when she moved into the nursing home, he illegally transferred about $105,000 into accounts belonging to him and his two children. Over the next two years the illegal transfers continued with Walker taking another $177,000, including the proceeds from the sale of his mother’s home. Justice Michael Brett said Walker had a duty to deal with his mother’s assets with the utmost good faith and to apply it in her interest, not his. The court heard at the time the power of attorney was granted, Mrs Walker had a bank account containing almost $140,000. The shortfall between her pension and the nursing home fees was about $850 a month, which was paid for by direct debits from her account. About two months after Mrs Walker moved into the nursing home, her house in Berriedale was sold and the net proceeds of about $190,000 were paid into a different bank account opened by Walker in his mother’s name. Walker’s crimes only came to light after Mrs Walker was moved into a nursing home and there was not enough money in her account to pay her fees.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by the Latvian Friendly Society Ltd T/A Latvian Friendly Society for the Latvian Friendly Society Ltd Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been waved through by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 15 June 2018.

The Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union and St Vincent De Paul Society are in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) contretemps before Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in his Melbourne chambers.

Queensland’s corruption watchdog and health ombudsman have been asked to investigate a former government psychiatrist after he wrote a book about killers he once examined. Donald Grant has defended his decision to write ‘Killer Instinct’, a new book that draws on contact he had with 10 killers when he was working for Queensland Health. Queensland Health said it acted on a request from Health Minister Steven Miles to refer the matter to the health ombudsman, and to the Crime and Corruption Commission to consider “any issues of potential corrupt conduct”.