Aged Care
23% pay rise for aged care AINs
April 11, 2024
Years of campaigning by the ANMF NSW and other unions has delivered a 23 per cent increase to award wages for Certificate III aged care workers. The Fair Work Commission has ordered new pay increases for aged care workers in further recognition that this mostly female workforce has been historically undervalued. On 15 March, the…
14 days ago
Aged Care
Staffing aged care safely makes economic sense
January 29, 2019
Better staffing and higher wages in nursing homes won’t cost the health system cost any…
Aged Care
Nurses control of drugs in aged care weakened
January 29, 2019
The Berejiklian government has opened the doors to drugs of addiction being controlled by employees who…
Aged Care
The aged care ‘industry’ and the Stock Exch...
January 25, 2019
Aged care is now an industry. Ben X, a health explorer, examines the implications for…
Aged Care
Too many Australians living in nursing homes take their...
January 21, 2019
Around 140 Australian nursing-home residents took their own lives between 2000 and 2013, our new…
Aged Care
Aged care royal commission benefits Generation X: it...
January 17, 2019
With the Aged Care royal commission under way, Prof Joseph Ibrahim argues it's too little,…
Aged Care
Chronic Understaffing in Aged Care Is Causing Enormous...
January 17, 2019
ANMF Media Release. 17 January, 2019 With another burst of stories detailing the pain and…
Aged Care
We’ve had 20 aged care reviews in 20 years – wi...
January 3, 2019
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is one of…
Aged Care
Aged Care funding won’t help vulnerable nursing h...
December 17, 2018
ANMF Media Release. 17 December, 2018 The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery…
Aged Care
Australia should be a world leader in aged care deliver...
December 17, 2018
ANMF Media Release. 15 December, 2018 Today, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) and…