With a crippling shortage in nurses and midwives across NSW, the union is urging the government to pay for university courses to attract and retain people to the profession.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is calling on Premier Dominic Perrottet to follow Victoria’s lead by investing in the nursing and midwifery workforce.
The Victorian government is recruiting and training 17,000 nurses and midwives and will cover the university fees of more than 10,000 nursing or midwifery undergraduate courses.
The latest demand comes as nurses prepare to walk off the job for 24 hours on Thursday, while maintaining life-preserving care.
The Union’s General Secretary Shaye Candish said it was critical for the government to address staff shortages impacting the state’s public hospitals.
“The Victorian government’s announcement is exactly the type of forward-thinking we have been championing in NSW to address some of the workforce concerns we can already see coming down the line here,” she said on Monday. Sky News is reporting that Morrison will appear before the inquiry into his secret ministries. For those unfamiliar with his work, Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle wrote ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ – which criticises war as futile and gruesome.
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Australia will continue to engage with Pacific region on China, PM says
Dom Giannini from AAP asked whether Australia needed to adjust its response to China, given China’s actions have not changed since Labor took government.
Albanese said:
It is true that Australia’s international relations and global circumstances haven’t been completely transformed in a hundred days. That’s true. But what we have done is change the way that we’re perceived. Penny Wong today is in Papua New Guinea. Later this week she’ll be in Timor-Leste.
He continues:
I continue to have discussions – some of which are public, some of which are private – with leaders in our region. And we’ll continue to engage including in the Solomons. But this is something that didn’t happen on our watch. This is something, though, that we believe in the national interest we need to engage with in a way that’s respectful of people’s national sovereignty. But in a way that clearly makes it clear what Australia’s national interest is