As the NSW government looks to hand down its 2020-21 budget, treasurer Dominic Perrottet has given people a taste of things to come in his pre-budget announcements on Sunday. The budget will be squarely aimed at post-COVID-19 recovery, stimulating the economy ...

The next wave of the pandemic may be a wave of mental health disorders that will arise throughout Australia. Preliminary data taken in the height of lockdowns showed that people are already reporting psychological distress during the pandemic. One preliminary ...

Maree Bernoth is angry. It doesn’t appear straight away; she’s affable on the phone and the kind of interviewee you enjoy chatting to on a Friday. She’s open and likes a yarn. I ask her if I can record our ...

In a departure from the policies taken to the last federal election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese has come out in favour of minimum staffing levels in aged care.   Speaking to the National Press Club, Albanese decried the state of ...

The CEO of an independent aged care home in NSW is calling for help from the government as she is forced to reinstate some lockdown visitation measures and her home is on the brink of running out of PPE. Viv ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has driven millions of people inside, many jobs in healthcare have not had that luxury. And as health professionals kept calm and carried on, so too did nursing schools across the nation as graduating the current ...

Mental health nurses will now be based at a number of police stations across NSW as part of the Government’s response to a growing mental health crisis. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 36 mental health nurses will be placed ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes to modern life. And although the virus’ sweep across the globe has been shocking and swift, this generation has been uniquely placed to deal with daily tasks that may have been arduous ...

The Australian Vocational Educational and Training (VET) sector is underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches according to an interim report released by the Productivity Commission last week. The sector costs the government $6.1 billion each year ...

I’m trying my best to get her to spill the beans, but ever the professional, Kaarin Goeldner won’t budge, but I can tell she wants to. As a former PR professional turned student nurse, Kaarin is discreet, a habit well ...