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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Nurses and midwives’ real wages almost $3000 less tha...
February 8, 2023
A new report released this week from The McKell Institute titled ‘A decade of wages…
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Coalition is a laggard on safe staffing
February 3, 2023
The Liberal–National Coalition that runs NSW has been left behind by other parties on the…
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The wages cap is an attack on nurses and midwives livin...
February 3, 2023
The Perrottet government’s wages caps have so far cost NSW nurses and midwives $80,000 each.…
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Dominic Perrottet turned workers comp into a basket cas...
February 3, 2023
Workers Comp was once a strong safety net for the injured at work. It has…
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Privatisation makes the cost-of-living crisis worse
February 3, 2023
Privatisation has made electricity, water and road tolls, among other daily expenses, more expensive as…
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Coalition offers little solution to regional woes
February 3, 2023
The year 2022 was notable for a parliamentary inquiry’s damning indictment of regional health services …
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New Zealand offers overseas nurses residency to meet sh...
February 3, 2023
New Zealand has offered overseas nurses and midwives an immediate pathway to residency, as the…
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New Zealand passes world-first tobacco ban
February 3, 2023
New Zealand has passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by…
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Strike four: Perrottet feels the rage
December 16, 2022
Thousands of nurses and midwives walked off the job for 24 hours on 23 November.…