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While Labor’s plan to boost pay draws criticism from the Coalition and LASA, the ANF welcomes the Aged Care Workforce Compact. By Amie Larter The federal government has announced a $1.2 billion injection into the pocket of minimum wage aged ...

Over the past three decades, nurses across the globe have engaged in highly politicised action to protect patient safety and the future of the profession, writes Linda Briskin. Thousands of Victorian nurses are ramping up industrial action with the threat ...

University nursing courses are not only increasing intakes of indigenous students, they are also learning how to keep them. By Mardi Chapman. Changes in recruitment and retention strategies are ensuring university nursing courses are not only getting more indigenous recruits, ...

Health assistants are an emerging role in Australia’s public hospitals. Linda Belardi reports on the battle to ensure they support, rather than replace skilled nurses. “OUR NURSES have three years’ education, experience and training and hundreds of hours of medical ...

Victims of forced-adoption practices believe it is time for nurses to apologise for their actions in the scandal, writes Flynn Murphy. Accusations of coercion, deception, bullying and even child theft have been levelled at the medical profession, amid intense scrutiny ...

Nurses around the country are struggling to find graduate placements so industry leaders are calling on state and federal governments to solve the urgent problem. Flynn Murphy reports It's an ugly time to be a graduate nurse in Australia. A ...

Australians are putting on the kilos and this causes problems for pregnant women. But health workers and patients are working on it. Amie Larter reports The prevalence of obesity around the nation has more than doubled in the past 20 ...

Lee Thomas, federal secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, talks influences, achievements and elections with Amie Larter. You have a clear passion for the nursing industry. Where did this stem from? I am a nurse and midwife and have had ...

Australian groups have launched a campaign to condemn ongoing human rights violations against nurses and other health workers in Bahrain. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA have supported the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) in this ...

A pain-free delivery method for DNA material to be placed in the skin holds great potential for developing countries. Researchers have developed a patch that uses barely visible needles to inject a new DNA vaccine under the skin, much like ...