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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Nurses and midwives urged to sign petition to protect healthcare workers in conflict zones

October 21, 2025

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: Action, All Nurses And Midwives, Nurses and Midwives for Peace, Peace

Residents in hot, humid regions more likely to have kidney failure

January 16, 2026

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: Action, All Nurses And Midwives, Healthcare, Rural & Remote

Australians living in consistently hot and humid northern regions are at greater risk of kidney failure than their compatriots in more temperate and less remote locations, researchers have found. University of Queensland researchers investigated the

National Reconciliation Week 2026 theme announced

January 16, 2026

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, All Nurses And Midwives, Reconciliation

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2026 All In has been announced and calls on Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every day. National Reconciliation Week – 27 May to 3 June every year –

Safer sharps, safer workflows: Understanding Australia’s new sharps container standards

December 10, 2025

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

Nurse Practitioner Sonja Elia, who works in immunisation at Austin Health, talks about her career and specialty.

Unions launch work health and safety report amid climate crisis

November 4, 2025

Category: Justice & Action
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Climate Change, Unions, Work Health and Safety

Unions are calling for new work health and safety laws to better protect workers from climate change, including extreme heat, natural disasters and air pollution. A delegation of union leaders and workers, including nurses, firefighters,