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"There's not one senior nurse I know that would stay. We would all leave."That's a nurse describing the reality of a wor...
15/08/2026

"There's not one senior nurse I know that would stay. We would all leave."

That's a nurse describing the reality of a workforce running on fumes. Australia is on track for a shortfall of at least 70,000 nurses by 2035 — and it's not a pipeline problem, it's a retention problem.

Graduates are being handed 30-bed wards and resuscitation duties they're not trained for, simply because they're the only ones who showed up to the shift. The award wage for a first-year RN sits below what the average barista earns. And the abuse — from patients, from families — is driving people out before they've even found their feet.

Better pay. Mandated ratios. Real mentorship. Free parking. Mental health support that isn't a token gesture. None of this is radical. It's the bare minimum needed to stop losing good nurses before they've barely started.

👉 If you're an early-career nurse: what's the one thing that would have kept you — or would keep you now?

Report via news.com.au: https://hubs.la/Q04sVPkw0

More than half of Victoria's aged care homes are failing to meet the minimum time residents are legally owed.420 of 736 ...
14/08/2026

More than half of Victoria's aged care homes are failing to meet the minimum time residents are legally owed.

420 of 736 Victorian facilities didn't hit their care minute targets last quarter. That's not a rounding error — that's thousands of residents going without the registered nurse hours and direct care time Labor's reforms were meant to guarantee.

And here's the part that should worry everyone: the shortfall is worse in some metro facilities than in the bush, despite more resources on their doorstep.

Funding has gone up. Compliance hasn't followed.

👉 If you work in aged care: are the care minutes on paper matching what's actually happening on your floor?

Report via the Herald Sun: https://hubs.la/Q04sYC2N0

Three nurses assaulted in one night at a Sydney emergency department. 88% of NSW nurses and midwives report experiencing...
14/08/2026

Three nurses assaulted in one night at a Sydney emergency department. 88% of NSW nurses and midwives report experiencing occupational violence in the past six months — up from 80% in 2019.

That's not a workforce with a behaviour problem. That's a system with a safety problem.

Being assaulted at work is not part of the job. It has never been part of the job.

Two questions for our members:
1️⃣ Have you experienced violence or aggression at work in the last six months?
2️⃣ Did you report it — and if not, why not?

Comment or message us privately. We're building the evidence base, and under-reporting is the reason this keeps getting dismissed.

Report via Nine: https://hubs.ly/Q04t14Cq0

If this raises issues for you, support is available: Lifeline 13 11 14 | Nurse & Midwife Support 1800 667 877

Our members shouldn't need a personal alarm in their hand to walk to their car after a shift.Today the Herald Sun report...
14/08/2026

Our members shouldn't need a personal alarm in their hand to walk to their car after a shift.

Today the Herald Sun reported on the safety crisis facing healthcare and community service workers in Frankston — and on the WorkSafe complaint NPAA has lodged in response.

Workers across the precinct told us what their working lives actually look like. Assaulted at work and forced onto stress leave. Stalked on public transport. Cars broken into. Walking alone in the dark, well away from their workplace, because there is no all-day parking. Members have resigned. Members have been fined again and again for staying with clients in crisis rather than leaving to move a car.

These are the people holding up mental health, drug and alcohol and community services in the precinct with the highest demand for AOD services in metropolitan Melbourne.

We've written jointly to Bayside Health Peninsula, Wellways, Frankston City Council and the State Government, because not one of them can fix this alone. We're asking for designated safe parking with lighting and CCTV, a staff shuttle, security at shift change, and real investment in the services that have disappeared from this community.

Geelong shows what's possible when everyone stops passing responsibility around — new lighting, CCTV upgrades, increased security and a dedicated safety coordinator, delivered in weeks.

Frankston deserves the same.

If you work in Frankston health or community services, we want to hear from you. Your accounts are what made this impossible to ignore. 📩 [email protected]

🔗 Report via the Herald Sun: https://hubs.la/Q04sPcD50

Another national strategy for nurses. The real question isn't the launch — it's what happens when we walk back onto the ...
14/08/2026

Another national strategy for nurses. The real question isn't the launch — it's what happens when we walk back onto the floor tomorrow.

Health Minister Mark Butler unveiled the National Nursing Workforce Strategy this week, warning Australia faces an 80,000-nurse shortfall by 2035. ACN welcomed it and is rightly pushing for a costed implementation plan with real deadlines and accountable owners.

We've been saying it for years, and we'll keep saying it: this was never a pipeline problem. Australia trains enough nurses. What we fail to do is keep them. Every "strategy" that doesn't put hard dollars behind safe ratios, decent pay, and manageable workloads is just another document members read on their tea break before going back to an unsafe shift.

Frameworks don't retain nurses. Funded, enforceable action does. We'll be watching the implementation plan, the targets, and who's held to account if it doesn't deliver — not the press conference.

💬 If one thing could actually keep you nursing another five years, what would it be — pay, staffing, or something else?

Details via Medianet: https://hubs.la/Q04sP7Fq0

Queensland Health says it has added more than 10,000 workers since November 2024, including 7,000+ frontline clinicians,...
13/08/2026

Queensland Health says it has added more than 10,000 workers since November 2024, including 7,000+ frontline clinicians, and points to reduced ramping as proof it's working.

Queensland nurses and midwives — we want the view from the floor. Are you feeling the difference on your ward, in your unit, on your roster? Or do the headline numbers not match your shift last night?

Your experience is the evidence that matters. Comment below or message us — your voice drives our advocacy.

The announcement: https://hubs.la/Q04sP3rC0

A US federal court just told a state government something no Australian court has ever told ours: you don't own the spee...
12/08/2026

A US federal court just told a state government something no Australian court has ever told ours: you don't own the speech of doctors.

In Kory v. Bonta, Judge Shubb stopped California's medical board from prosecuting physicians for the clinical opinions they gave patients — ruling regulators "may not dress up a viewpoint prosecution as a 'standard of care'" case.

Australia has no First Amendment. What we have is AHPRA's "public confidence" standard — a test that doesn't ask whether a patient was harmed or whether the evidence was sound, only whether a doctor's speech undermined the official line. Child psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer was stood down for raising clinical concerns and it took more than three years to be vindicated. Psychiatrist Dr Andrew Amos was banned from publicly criticising puberty blockers for minors. Now AHPRA has adopted the contested IHRA definition as a complaints tool — despite warnings from its own lead drafter against using it this way.

Quackery, fraud and genuine misconduct should always be punishable. Policing opinion through a practitioner's livelihood is something else entirely.

Read the full piece by AMPS Secretary Kara Thomas and Dr Andrew McIntyre in The Spectator Australia: https://hubs.la/Q04sNShB0

💬 If a regulator can discipline you for undermining public confidence in government public health advice even if you have evidence to support your informed view, is "public confidence" protecting patients — or protecting the regulator?

NPAA is currently at the table in enterprise bargaining across almost every state and territory in the country — fightin...
11/08/2026

NPAA is currently at the table in enterprise bargaining across almost every state and territory in the country — fighting for better pay, safer ratios and stronger conditions for nurses.

If your workplace has issued a NERR (Notice of Employee Representational Rights), or you know your agreement is expiring soon, we want to hear from you.

Nurses deserve a bargaining representative who works for nurses — not for a system. If you'd like NPAA to represent you in your EBA, get in touch.

📩 [email protected]

From 1 August, the final stage of the aged care work value case is in effect — enrolled nurses are around $8,000 a year ...
11/08/2026

From 1 August, the final stage of the aged care work value case is in effect — enrolled nurses are around $8,000 a year better off, and RNs up to $36,000 ahead of where they were in 2022.

Pay recognition matters. But a pay rise can't fix an unsafe roster.

💬 Nurses — has the pay increase changed what you're seeing on the floor: staffing, workloads, retention? Tell us in the comments.

Details via the Fair Work Ombudsman: https://hubs.la/Q04swQms0

AHPRA — the regulator that can end a nurse or doctor's career — has exposed the identities of 136 practitioners linked t...
10/08/2026

AHPRA — the regulator that can end a nurse or doctor's career — has exposed the identities of 136 practitioners linked to health notifications for alcohol and substance misuse. A bulk email failed to hide the recipient list.

A former AHPRA investigator called it a "colossal stuff-up" and said what our members already know: "It's very hard to hold AHPRA accountable for mistakes."

When a practitioner errs, AHPRA investigates and suspends. When AHPRA errs, who answers?

AMPS and NPAA are calling for genuine independent oversight.

Report via ABC News: https://hubs.la/Q04svJ_H0

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