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;
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- June 2, 2025
- Category: Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Optimising medicine use in older people is a complex balance between disease management and avoiding medicine-related problems As a person ages (particularly after the age of 70) they are more likely to have multiple chronic conditions, leading to the use

Female nurses face significant gender pay gap
- November 8, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Gender inequality
Female nurses in Australia face a pay gap of up to 13%, with male nurses promoted faster, and in more executive roles despite women making up nearly 90% of the nursing workforce. Edith Cowan University

Queensland unions push for equal paid parental leave
- October 17, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The Queensland Police Union has this week partnered with the Queensland Council of Unions in a joint campaign pushing for equal paid parental leave across the state public sector. The campaign is calling for commitments

Climate crisis is a health crisis: Nurses and midwives call for action
- October 15, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: Action, All Nurses And Midwives, Climate Change
Nurses and midwives have declared the climate crisis a health crisis with an immediate call to action this Global Climate Change Week (14-18 October). The Planetary Health Collaborative for Nurses and Midwives declaration highlights the

Targeting unnecessary use of medical consumables
- October 10, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Designing material waste out of our clinical workflow improves efficiency while reducing the environmental and financial cost of healthcare without compromising patient outcomes. This case study demonstrates how our knowledge on the ward can target
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