Nurse ‘Trailblazer’ helps improve aged care
A Canberra-based nurse practitioner (NP) who developed an innovative model integrating specialist palliative care into residential aged care in a bid to give people more dignity and choice at the end of life was recently named the inaugural Health Minister’s Nursing Trailblazer following Australia’s launch of the global Nursing Now campaign in Sydney. Established by […]
Report: workers $2.87 billion worse off under Coalition due to penalty rate cuts
A new report by the McKell Institute investigating the impact of Australia’s two major political parties’ penalty rate policies has found workers would be $2.87 billion worse off under a re-elected Coalition Government than Labor. The research paper found hospitality workers would receive $837 million less, retail workers would get $1.64 billion less, and pharmacy […]