Justice & Action

Informing on the latest industrial rights and action, nursing and midwifery’s collective force and social justice issues relevant to health

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South Gaza’s lifeline must be preserved, warns medical humanitarian aid agency

June 6, 2025

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Gaza; Humanitarian aid;

Government to pay superannuation on paid parental leave

March 7, 2024

Category: Justice & Action, News
/ Tag: Gender equity

Parental leave is the only form of leave which doesn’t require superannuation to be paid – until now.

Progressing Gender Equity in 2024

March 7, 2024

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Gender equity

As of 2023, Australia’s national gender pay gap stands at 13.3%, translating to women earning $253.50 less per week than their male counterparts. Projections suggest it will take another 26 years to close this gap.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: The conspiracy of silence within the medical profession

March 7, 2024

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives

The phrase ‘conspiracy of silence’ is defined by Collins Dictionary as: ‘If there is a conspiracy of silence about something, people who know about it have agreed that they will not talk publicly about it,

Empowering employees: Australia’s new labour laws bring long-awaited protections

March 6, 2024

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Labour law

In a significant stride toward fair and just workplaces, the Closing Loopholes Bill proposes to usher in a wave of comprehensive labour reforms aimed at bolstering protections for workers across various sectors. These transformative laws