Editorial
Safety is the number one priority
December 2, 2020
In a difficult and dangerous year, the safety of nurses, midwives and patients has been our overriding concern. At the end of this strange year, full of uncertainty, light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. Evidence that several vaccines are showing signs of strong effectiveness against COVID gives us reason for hope that…
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Safer work, safer care
October 2, 2019
October has been nominated as Australian Safework Month. In this month’s Lamp, as in many…
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Our kids’ strike for climate deserves our support
September 3, 2019
When school kids are brave enough to “tell it like it is” and their claims…
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Stronger together
July 30, 2019
Over the last year strong campaigning by nurses and midwives has kept our high priority…
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Ratios remain our long-term goal
July 1, 2019
The NSWNMA welcomes the government’s commitment to fund more nurses in the 2019-20 budget but…
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We choose fairness not fear
June 3, 2019
The federal election result is a setback for the union movement but the issues and…
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An opportunity to change the rules
April 29, 2019
Australia needs policies and an economic direction that deliver a better life for working Australians.…
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Our campaign will still deliver more nurses and midwive...
April 1, 2019
Now that the Liberal National Coalition has been re-elected in NSW we will need to…
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Shift-by-shift ratios are within our grasp
March 4, 2019
This state election is crucial if we want to win shift-by-shift, nurse-to-patient ratios across the…
Editorial
Chronicle of a fiasco foretold
January 29, 2019
Normally it takes a bit of time before the flaws and inadequacies in service provision…