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An Estonian man who died in a horrific car crash at Salamander Bay last week was alone in Australia and his workmates are fundraising to return his body home. Construction workers Lauri Jarman and Jamie Ward were killed on Friday shortly before 1am near Soldiers Point Road after their car left left the road and slammed into a tree. Mr Jarman, of Estonia, and Mr Ward, of Brisbane, worked for Myzac Constructions, which is contracted to a seniors housing project in Salamander Bay.

Ambulance Victoria has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) which it must defend before Deputy President Hamilton in his chambers in Melbourne (Mainka).

Royal Wolf, the largest supplier of shipping containers for affordable housing in Australasia, has appointed Franceine Wilson as Business Development Manager as it continues to expand in the New Zealand market.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Meercroft Care Incorporated for its Meercroft Care Inc Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell sitting in Melbourne on 17 April 2018.

A doctor facing rape charges has been refused bail. The doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested on March 24 and charged with eight counts of rape, as well as attempting to pervert the course of justice. It will be alleged that one count of rape was committed against a patient in 2012. The doctor faces a total 25 charges before the court, 13 of which he was already on bail for when the fresh charges were laid. His charges include eight counts of rape, two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, five counts of breach of bail conditions, four counts of common assault, taking reprisal, threatening violence and wilful damage. A bail application was made in the Townsville Magistrates Court last week but Magistrate Scott Luxton reserved his decision until this afternoon.

An application by Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) is the preserve of Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 12.30pm.

A former hospital anaesthetic technician could have put the lives of three vulnerable patients at risk, by stealing their painkillers for himself, just before or during their operations. Evan Leslie Kajewski, 40, who substituted the drug fentanyl with saline solution while working at the Mater Hospital last year, has been jailed for two months. “His actions in replacing fentanyl with saline solution was when patients were at their most vulnerable,” magistrate Judith Daley said. Innocent people were put at risk, prosecutor Maria Vassilakos told the court. Kajewski pleaded guilty to fraud, stealing as a servant while working at Brisbane’s Mater Hospital, unlawful possession of the opiate drug fentanyl and possession of drug utensils.

Scalabrini Village Aged Care is set to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-4 – Level 11 in Sydney at 3.30pm (Singh).