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Latrobe Community Health Services Ltd has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) with which it must deal before Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in his Melbourne chambers (Cladwell).

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Palms Aged Living Management Pty Ltd T/A The Palms Aged Care for its Palms Aged Living Management Services Pty Ltd, NSWNMA, ANMF NSW branch and HSU New South Wales branch Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 13 December 2017.

St John of God Health Care will fight a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) before Commissioner McKinnon in his Melbourne chambers (Franklin).

Bolton Clarke has appointed Jim Toohey as the group’s executive general manager operating performance.

Tenterfield Care Centre Limited has had its Tenterfield Care Centre Limited NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 application stamped.

Mary Gamble, a former Dunedin midwife and outspoken health board member, has died. The “midwife to thousands of Dunedin families, and defiant ex-district health board member” had had a long battle with cancer.

A Cape York nurse has been charged with fraud after allegedly stealing morphine from her workplace. Police will allege the 41-year-old woman entered false information into a drug register to steal the drugs at a Weipa medical facility. She will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court on January 29 charged with two counts of fraud.

A nurse has been stood down from his hospital job in northern WA following an expletive-filled, racist rant on social media that threatened violence against children. On a Broome community Facebook page on Friday night, nurse Kevin Naughton responded to comments about children breaking into homes in the town. “Just f***ing bash them within an inch of their useless, worthless lives, they are nothing more than rats or cockroaches,” he wrote.