800 RDNS nurses in Victoria begin industrial action over pay. Community care nurses at Australia’s largest provider of in-home care have commenced industrial action in an on-going dispute over pay and conditions. The protected action by the 800 nurses of ...

The ANF Tasmanian branch has applauded the federal government’s $325 million injection into the state’s ailing health system. Australian Nursing Federation Tasmanian branch state secretary Neroli Ellis has welcomed the federal government’s $325 million rescue package and said lives would ...

Last week’s ACT budget committed funding for additional nurses and elective surgery operations. Treasurer Andrew Barr has given the ACT's hospital system a massive $109.5 million boost despite strained finances. Some $31.6 million has been allocated to meet growth in ...

Rallies will be held across the state to protest changes to workplace compensation. Nurses have voted to stop work over the NSW government's push to overhaul the compensation scheme for injured workers. NSW Nurses' Association general-secretary Brett Holmes said rallies ...

Concerns of false diagnosis and overmedicating young children have been raised ahead of a national rollout of a program to test three-year-olds for social and emotional issues. Mental Health Minister Mark Butler says safeguards are needed to ensure the government's ...

The government decided against registration for personal care workers in its recent aged care reforms, but that doesn’t mean the debate has ceased. Antonia Maiolo reports. From cleaning and washing clothes, to cooking meals, to shopping, showering and grooming, Justine ...

The state’s only re-entry course will end on July 1 forcing nurses to study on the mainland to meet national registration requirements, writes Linda Belardi. Tasmanian nurses seeking to return to the workforce will no longer have access to a ...

Linda Belardi speaks to former senior health department advisers to talk about leadership, policy and perceptions of the profession. Questions of power and influence are central to the profession’s ability to persuade and advise governments, so how is nursing perceived ...

A parliamentary inquiry has heard broad-based support for a national centre for disease control. The federal immigration department and health experts have called on the government to set up a national centre for disease control, modelled on the US organisation ...

Union says an assistant caring for the elderly is paid less than a Coles retail assistant. Aged care employers have been trading on the goodwill of nurses by paying them less than shop assistants, nurses have said. The NSW Nurses Association (NSWNA) ...