Social Justice & Action
Climate Change and Environment
Climate Change and Environment
Fossil fuel financier says climate change threatens hum...
April 1, 2020
The world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, JP Morgan, warns clients that without action on climate change there could be “catastrophic” outcomes. The warning came in a report prepared by…
5 days ago
Climate Change and Environment
“As a mother, I am terrified”
February 7, 2020
Deanna Hayes, a private hospital nurse and a mother of three including Ambrose, a school striker, spoke about the health implications of climate change when…
Climate Change and Environment
Bushfires create “a serious health emergency”
Climate Change and Environment
Bushfire information for nurses and midwives
Community Campaigns
Community Campaigns
Community protest halts ward merger plan
April 1, 2020
A plan to merge wards at Maclean District Hospital has been “deferred” in the face of growing community opposition. Northern NSW Local Health District says it has postponed a decision…
5 days ago
Community Campaigns
We won! No job cuts at Maclean District Hospital
March 5, 2020
Maclean is celebrating a decision from the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) to withdraw a reconfiguration of Maclean District Hospital that would have resulted…
Community Campaigns
That is Violence
Community Campaigns
Help Save the Kalang Headwaters from Logging
Member Stories
Member Stories
A nursing life forged in war
April 1, 2020
In this Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, The Lamp will celebrate nurses and midwives who created their own history. In this issue we look at the life of…
5 days ago
Member Stories
Solidarity between city and bush
April 1, 2020
Nurse Di Lang shares her thanks to the nurses who assisted at her regional hospital during the recent bushfires. To the amazing RPA and Concord…
Member Stories
Susan Flynn: our February Nurse of the Month
Member Stories