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

Struggling with mental health and climate distress? Get out and plant a tree
- July 17, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Planet Ark is encouraging Australians to get outdoors to do something good for their mental health this National Tree Day, 28 July, with research suggesting climate-related impacts on mental health are significantly affecting people’s wellbeing.

Gender assumptions and the value of work
- July 11, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The recent Fair Work Commission aged care work value decision confirmed that the work of aged care sector employees and nurses has been undervalued on the basis of gender assumptions.1 The decision sets out a

Explainer: All you need to know about the ANMF’s Work Value Cases
- July 9, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: Aged Care
The ANMF is currently running two Work Value cases at the Fair Work Commission – The Aged Care Industry Case and The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Case. It has developed two FAQs to help members better

Fair Work Commission hands down decision on timing of pay rises for aged care workers
- July 1, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
Historic wage increases awarded to aged care workers will be delivered in two tranches from the start of next year, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has decided. In March, the FWC handed down final increases
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