ANMF Media Release, 28 October 2018 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed many of a Senate Committee’s recommendations aimed at greater transparency for the country’s taxpayer-funded, for-profit aged care providers. However, ANMF Federal Secretary, Annie Butler, says the Senate Economics Reference Committee did not go far enough in making the big for-profit […]
ANMF Media Release. Canberra, 22 November, 2018. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is calling on the Senate Economics Reference Committee investigating the financial and tax practices of Australia’s for-profit aged care providers, to support its recommendations which will ensure greater transparency and accountability of taxpayer-funded subsidies for the sector. ANMF Federal Secretary Annie […]
Right now, the NSW Government is reviewing the pollution licences for coal-fired power stations. The Eraring, Vales Point and Mt Piper power stations are some of the state’s biggest sources of air pollution. By installing readily available pollution controls, generators can reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and mercury by as much as […]
ANMF Media Release. 26 October, 2018. Community support for a Bill which would see aged care providers forced to publicly disclose the number of staff they roster on to care for elderly nursing home residents, is being strongly encouraged by the country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF). ANMF Federal Secretary Annie […]
ANMF Media Release 23 October, 2018 Members of the country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), will take to the streets in a show of support for ‘Australia Needs a Pay Rise’ starting across the country today (Tuesday 23 October). The rallies are being held in capital cities and selected regional towns, […]
ANMF Media Release 19 October, 2018 The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has joined the College of Mental Health Nurses and other healthcare professionals in calling on the Prime Minister to urgently evacuate over 85 children and their families from the Nauru and Manus island detention camps. They say nurses […]
ANMF Media Release 25 September, 2018 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) says disturbing evidence of vulnerable nursing home residents being abused proves that consecutive governments and regulators have failed to act on warnings from nurses and consumers that dangerously low staffing levels are resulting in elderly abuse and neglect. “Like the rest of […]
ANMF media release September 18, 2018 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) says tonight’s harrowing Four Corners investigation into aged care homes reveals a sector in crisis and an entire section of the Australian community that has been abandoned. “Our members have long-been raising their concerns about dangerously low staffing levels in nursing homes, […]
ANMF media release Sunday 16 September, 2018 A Royal Commission will do nothing to fix the crisis in aged care unless the Government introduces mandated staffing ratios in residential nursing homes as a matter of urgency, according to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF). “Every day that the Government fails to act on the […]
ANMF media release September 11, 2018 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has thanked those Federal Senators who stood up for elderly Australians by supporting a Bill aimed at ensuring safe, quality care is provided to our vulnerable nursing home residents. The Aged Care (Single Quality Framework) Reform Bill 2018 was introduced into Parliament […]
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