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;

NPs made to wait

October 8, 2023

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Nurse Practitioners

After more than a decade of lobbying and advocacy, the May Federal Budget saw the introduction of funding for long-awaited reforms for NPs and for, most importantly, the people for whom they provide care. But

Speaking up against injustice and unfairness

October 6, 2023

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

Speaking up against injustice and unfairness, even when others around me remain silent, is a value I hold close to my heart. My name is Justin Nixon, and I am a registered nurse and a

‘No respect’: Red Cross Lifeblood nurses rally over proposed enterprise agreement

October 5, 2023

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

“I just don’t think what they’ve put on the table for us so far is showing very much respect at all,” says Lifeblood enrolled nurse (EN) Kelly Costello about her employer’s proposed single enterprise agreement,

Suffering in silence: The reality of elder abuse

October 2, 2023

Category: Justice & Action, Research
/ Tag: Aged Care, All Nurses And Midwives, Elder abuse

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines elder abuse as “a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress