Australian women are set to be thousands of dollars better off by the time they retire, with the government promising superannuation on paid parental leave in a landmark win for gender equality. After long citing budget restraints, the government will ...
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Qld nurses rally for their jobs amid vaccine refusal
Nurses dismissed for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine rallied outside a major Queensland hospital, demanding re-employment. Dozens of nurses and midwives waved placards outside Gold Coast University Hospital on Saturday, following leaked Qld Health emails in The Courier Mail revealed a ...
More »Casual nurses at WA hospital dismissed due to ‘admin error’
Casual nurses at a Western Australian hospital saw their employment terminated abruptly, a move the union has called an attempt to recover from budget overruns, but the hospital claims it was a simple administrative error. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery ...
More »WorkSafe Vic charges Monash Health over death of Indigenous woman
Monash Health is facing a charge over the death of an Indigenous woman who took her own life while receiving mental health treatment at Dandenong Hospital in 2022. WorkSafe Victoria announced that it had charged the public health service for ...
More »Concord Hospital staff walk out over parking
Calls for fair parking rang out from Concord Hospital as staff walked out for the second time, protesting against an increase in parking fees. Dozens of staff stopped working from noon today to protest the reintroduction of the parking permits ...
More »Westmead Hospital nurses threaten to quit over staff parking fees
Nurses at Sydney's largest hospital are threatening to quit after parking fees will force them to pay hundreds of dollars a year. Westmead Hospital healthcare workers, including cleaners, professors, doctors and nurses, will have to pay $11 a day to ...
More »WA nurses union to run for 2025 state election
The Australian Nurses Federation Western Australia (ANFWA) has confirmed it will be running in next year's state elections after formally registering the party on Monday. ANFWA secretary Janet Reah confirmed the party had reached the required 500 signatures over the ...
More »Nurses at St Vincent’s scaled back due to financial pressure
Staff at St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst have been told the number of nurses rostered will be scaled back due to financial pressure. The Sydney Morning Herald revealed last week that nurses received an email on January 12 stating close ...
More »Urgent care clinics open up nationwide
The Albanese Government's early campaign promise of establishing more than 50 urgent care clinics (UCC) has taken shape as 58 UCCs are now open across Australia. Health Minister Mark Butler said the UCCs were starting to deliver care seven days ...
More »Rozalia Spadafora inquest: More missed opportunities
The coronial inquest into the death of Rozalia Spadafora continued last Monday. The five-year-old is believed to have died of myocarditis brought on by influenza A in July last year – a day after her fifth birthday. She was taken ...
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