Thank you for your continued interest in campaigning to keep the new Northern Beaches Hospital public. Despite the fact that the government has announced that Healthscope is the successful tenderer to build and run the new facility, we will continue to campaign to put pressure on the Baird Government to keep this hospital public. At […]
Brett Holmes, General Secretary, has written to Peter Dutton, federal Minister for Health, putting on record the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association’s opposition to letting the private health insurance industry into primary health care. 31 October 2014 The Hon Peter Dutton MP Minister for Health PO Box 6022 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Dear Minister, […]
Applications are now open for the Union Summer Internship, 2015, run by Unions NSW. Union Summer runs for three weeks from Monday 2 February – Friday 20 February 2015. Successful interns are placed with a trade union for three weeks and provided with training and a diverse experience of what it is like to work […]
Gough Whitlam, who has died in Sydney aged 98, can rightly be called the founder of Medicare. In the early 1970s a large proportion of Australians lacked coverage for health. The scheme for universal coverage was originally called Medibank and was a major plank in Whitlam’s winning 1972 election platform. Medibank was one of the reforms […]
Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) staff are asking their local candidates in the March 2015 state election to take a pledge to support them in their campaign against privatisation. The pledge for candidates reads: I COMMIT TO: 1. Protect ageing, disability and home care services in NSW by ensuring the NSW Government retains a […]
Staff from ADHC (Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care), including disability nurses, will gather outside Parliament House on Thursday 13 November to present a petition against privatisation to the NSW Government. Download this poster for your workplace: Anti-privatisation rally poster NSWNMA-PSA
Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreaks in West Africa – important information for clinicians in secondary or tertiary care as of 10 October 2014. Key point Clinicians should be alert to the possibility of Ebola in unwell travellers returning from affected areas of West Africa, and obtain a full travel and exposure history. Contact public health urgently […]
The G20 is coming to Brisbane in November and the NSWNMA is going to the G20 with our proposal for a Robin Hood tax in Australia to fund vital public services, like health. Download our booklet: Bring the Robin Hood tax to Australia. Along the way we’re stopping off in several regional centres to discuss the […]
Help send a message to Joe Hockey to bury his sick Budget for good, on Thursday 23 October, 12.30pm in Martin Place in the city. Speakers will include Jude Page of the Public Health Association and Nadine Flood of the Community and Public Sector Union. Due to deep public opposition, Hockey’s proposed Budget GP co-payment […]
NSWNMA members are invited to attend their local Sydney Alliance District Assembly in the coming weeks. Please register on the Sydney Alliance website and say you are from NSWNMA. There will be groups of nurses and midwives attending each assembly. Members are also invited to attend a 2-day community organising and relationships training workshop, to […]
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