Media & Campaigns

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Media Release Joint Media Release: Healthcare leaders call for affordable, accessible abortion for Australian women

10 April 2025

Today, 40 health and medical organisations have called on all candidates and political parties running in the 2025 feder...

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Media Release This election, our politicians must stand-up for nurses and midwives

28 March 2025

Over the past three years, the Albanese Government has delivered a long list of policies that will benefit Australia’s n...

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Media Release ANMF applauds Budget funding for health, aged care and cost of living relief

25 March 2025

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) welcomes prioritised funding in the Budget for health and aged ca...

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Media Releases

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Federal Labor pledges to address paid parental leave gap for grieving parents

News Federal Labor pledges to address paid parental leave gap for grieving parents

24 April 2025

A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will legislate to guarantee that working parents dealing with stillbirth and earl...

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NEW ERA: Australian registered nurses empowered to prescribe

News NEW ERA: Australian registered nurses empowered to prescribe

24 April 2025

In December 2024, Health Ministers approved a new Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines – designate...

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One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms

News One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms

22 April 2025

One in five workers aged under 25 are paid below the legal minimum wage for their age, according to data released today....

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