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Advertising blitz to boost primary healthcare workforce welcomed
- February 12, 2025
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Campaign, Career, Education, Graduates and early career nurses, Primary healthcare, Students

Albanese Labor Government commits to expanding and standardising RUSON/M Employment models if re-elected
- April 28, 2025
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Student nurses
The Albanese Labor Government has committed to progressing scoping work to provide greater access to and consistency to the Registered Undergraduate Student of Nursing/Midwifery (RUSON/M) employment models if elected. The successful model launched in Victoria

Coalition’s plan to reinstate childcare subsidy activity test slammed
- April 24, 2025
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Childcare, Cost-of-living, Federal Election
The Coalition’s plan if elected, to reinstate the abolished childcare subsidy Activity Test has been slammed as poor policy that would see Australian parents lose guaranteed subsidised access to childcare. Reinstatement of the Activity Test

Federal Labor pledges to address paid parental leave gap for grieving parents
- April 24, 2025
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Cost-of-living, Federal Election, Maternity, Paid Parental Leave
A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will legislate to guarantee that working parents dealing with stillbirth and early infant death can continue to access their employer-paid paid parental leave (PPL). The action comes off the back

Subsidised childcare to ease cost-of-living for nurses and midwives
- April 15, 2025
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Childcare, Cost-of-living
Naomi Riley is in her 11th year of having children under five and juggling part-time work with paid and unpaid childcare. “My youngest is in two days of kindergarten a week that is fully funded
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