Social Justice & Action
Community Campaigns
Almost 1 million Australians are LGBTQIA+ – and for t...
December 21, 2024
New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week shows one in 20 (4.5%) Australians over 16 are LGBTQIA+. For perspective: at around 900,000 people, that’s similar to the population of Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory…
29 days ago
Member Stories
Midwives’ cry for help
Imagine bringing new life into the world under conditions that make you feel like you’re…
Member Stories
Casual employment needs to change in public hospitals
NSW Health’s Clinical Resource Unit (CRU) and agency staff working in rural and remote hospitals…
Member Stories
Healthscope nurses are more than a corporate bottom lin...
When I went into nursing 30 something years ago, I…
Member Stories
Premier, you’re not picking between rent and food eac...
My name is Emma, and I am a third-year registered…
Member Stories
Vale Catherine Donnellan (4/5/1961- 4/7/2024)
Cathy undertook her general training at Canterbury Hospital from 1982…
Climate Change and Environment
Climate Change and Environment
Why are we seeing more pandemics? Our impact on the pla...
September 17, 2024
Pandemics – the global spread of infectious diseases – seem to be making a comeback. In the Middle Ages we had the Black Death (plague), and after the first world…
2 days ago
Climate Change and Environment
Nurses win joint environmental award
June 7, 2024
NSWNMA members were recognised at the NSW Environment Awards for their campaign contribution to stop a major gas project that threatens to contaminate the Great…
Climate Change and Environment
A “staggering” number of workers vulnerable to clim...
Climate Change and Environment
Historic win for Gomeroi people in Native Title appeal...
Community Campaigns
Community Campaigns
Almost 1 million Australians are LGBTQIA+ – and for t...
December 21, 2024
New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week shows one in 20 (4.5%) Australians over 16 are LGBTQIA+. For perspective: at around 900,000 people, that’s similar…
29 days ago
Community Campaigns
Attacks on health care during war are becoming more com...
October 1, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned attacks on health-care workers, patients and facilities “must not become the norm”.…
Community Campaigns
ANMF stands for the end to global conflict on Internati...
Community Campaigns
“A significant day for Aboriginal land rights”: Bre...
Member Stories
Member Stories
Midwives’ cry for help
December 13, 2024
Imagine bringing new life into the world under conditions that make you feel like you’re failing before you’ve even begun. As an early-career midwife in a critically understaffed rural maternity…
6 days ago
Member Stories
Casual employment needs to change in public hospitals
December 13, 2024
NSW Health’s Clinical Resource Unit (CRU) and agency staff working in rural and remote hospitals provide an essential service. NSW Health employs CRU and agency…