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A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Claremont & Southport Aged Care Limited for the CASPA Care Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been agreed by Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon in Melbourne on 10 August 2018.

A man who allegedly tricked retirement home residents into believing he worked for a pest control company has been charged with a string of burglary offences. Police said during July and August the 41-year-old man told residents and staff at the retirement village in Kingsley, in Perth’s north, that he needed access to homes to check for white ant infestations. Police alleged he stole cash while inside the properties. The Greenwood man faced 17 charges including seven aggravated burglary offences and was due to face court today.

A1 Colon Hydrotherapy Brisbane is to defend a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Simpson in his Brisbane chambers at 2.30pm (Marambio).

Elderly residents had to leave their rooms at a Melbourne aged care facility overnight when a fire started in roof space above one resident’s room. Firefighters brought the blaze under control in 20 minutes but stayed behind to assist transport 23 residents to alternative lodgings, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade said. Transport ambulances helped move some residents off the Doncaster East site but no one was injured.

A nurse in Townsville Hospital’s secure mental health unit is under investigation for supplying a patient with a hunting knife. A source said a nurse brought in what they described as “a large hunting knife” and gave it to a patient who was cooking food, but then left the patient unsupervised with the potential weapon. Staff at the nurses station were “shocked” when the patient presented them with the knife. It’s the latest in a string of controversies to rock the Townsville Hospital services.

St Johns Community Care Program Ltd has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Simpson in his Brisbane chambers (Nichols).

Due to the federal government’s aged care funding freeze, Southern Cross Care — the organisation who runs Assumption Villa in Leeton — has had to cut 128 staff working.

A NSW woman has been charged with murder after her 92-year-old mother was found dead at an aged care home in the Southern Highlands. The 67-year-old was arrested by Southern Highlands police following the death of the mother at the facility in Bundanoon on Sunday night. She was charged and refused bail to appear at Goulburn Local Court on Thursday.