Public Health
154 million lives saved in 50 years: 5 charts on the gl...
May 14, 2024
We know vaccines have been a miracle for public health. Now, new research led by the World Health Organization has found vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives in the past 50 years from 14 different diseases. Most of these have been children under five, and around two-thirds children under one year old. In…
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Wagga Wagga revitalised
April 7, 2022
About 180 nurses from Wagga Wagga Base Hospital rallied in a local park before marching…
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Bathurst sets a record
April 7, 2022
More than 100 nurses from Bathurst, Lithgow and Cowra hospitals rallied in Bathurst outside the…
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Strike wins positive media coverage
April 7, 2022
Nurse and midwife activists get top billing in media’s sympathetic reporting of statewide strike. “They’ve…
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On TV and speaking their minds
April 7, 2022
Television news coverage showed nurses and midwives will not be intimidated into silence. Channel 10…
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Second statewide strike for nurses and midwives
March 30, 2022
Thousands of nurses and midwives will strike tomorrow across the state, with many walking off…
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Thumping SA election result won on health
March 21, 2022
An understaffed and under-resourced health sector has taken centre stage at the weekend’s South Australian…
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Out-of-season flu outbreaks likely due to open borders
March 17, 2022
Australia could expect an out-of-season outbreak of influenza this year as a result of open…
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Nurses left to clean up Perrottet’s ‘shambolic mess...
February 3, 2022
The nursing workforce barely has its head above water trying to manage a disaster of…
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Juniors unsupported as hospital bleeds staff
February 3, 2022
An exodus of nurses from Tweed Hospital in the far north of NSW tells a…