Media Releases
Stay up to date with the latest news and announcements from the ANMF.
Media Articles
Media Release Message from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation - Standing together against hate speech
Thursday 13 February 2025
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has always stood for peace, healing, and the protection of human ...
Media Release Joint Statement: Nursing and Midwifery Campaign for Better Primary Health Care for all Australians
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Nine of the nation’s largest nursing and midwifery organisations have formed an Alliance to campaign for significant and...
Media Release Nurses and midwives helping deliver new models of healthcare
Wednesday 06 November 2024
The recommendations of the ‘Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce’ Scope of Practice Review’ Final Report (‘R...
Media Release Fee-free TAFE to help fix skills shortages in nursing and aged care
Monday 04 November 2024
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed the Albanese Governmen...
Media Release Reforms to empower nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives
Wednesday 30 October 2024
From this Friday, November 1, landmark laws come into effect across Australia, removing barriers, which for too long, pr...
Media Release Media Statement: Midwifery Workforce in Crisis
Friday 25 October 2024
In 2023, the Nursing and Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA) funded Midwifery Futures: The Australian Midwifery Workforce P...
Media Release 100 years old, 100 years strong: ANMF marks a remarkable milestone
Wednesday 23 October 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), its Executive, State and Territory Branches and members all acro...
Media Release ANMF stands for the end to global conflict on International Day of Peace
Saturday 21 September 2024
On this International Day of Peace, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is expressing its support fo...
Media Release Joint Statement: Primary Health Care Alliance - PHC Congress
Tuesday 27 August 2024
On 26 July 2024, the inaugural Primary Health Care Congress (PHC Congress) was convened at the International Convention...
Media Release ANMF welcomes payments for student nurses & midwives – helping alleviate ‘placement poverty’
Thursday 15 August 2024
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed new legislation which ...
Media Release ANMF condemns aged care providers for reclassifying lifestyle and allied health staff to meet mandated care minutes
Thursday 04 July 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) says the tactic being used by some aged care providers to reclass...
Media Release Media Statement: ANMF welcomes pay rise dates for aged care workers, but disappointed aged care nurses kept waiting
Tuesday 02 July 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) welcomes the certainty of a final wage outcome for aged care work...
Media Release New powers for nurse practitioners, midwives to provide quality care
Friday 17 May 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has commended MPs and Senators for supporting new Legislation whi...
Media Release Budget delivers welcome funding for health and aged care
Tuesday 14 May 2024
The largest union in the country, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) welcomes the Albanese Governmen...
Media Release Celebrating International Nurses Day 2024
Sunday 12 May 2024
‘Our Nurses. Our Future. The economic power of care’ On this International Nurses Day (IND), the Australian Nursing and...
Media Release ANMF welcomes new support payments for student nurses & midwives
Monday 06 May 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has commended the Albanese Government on new support payments for...
Media Release Joint Statement from Australia’s Peak Nursing & Midwifery Organisations - Scope of Practice Review: Issues Paper 2
Wednesday 01 May 2024
Australia’s peak nursing and midwifery organisations welcome the release of the Scope of Practice Review Issues Paper Tw...
Media Release Aged Care nurses raise their voices in Canberra
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Around 60 aged care nurses and carers from across the country have travelled to Canberra to address the ongoing failures...
Media Release Nurse Practitioners, Midwives empowered to provide quality care
Wednesday 20 March 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has commended the Albanese Government for introducing new laws wh...
Media Release Wage case recognises historic undervalued work of aged care nurses
Friday 15 March 2024
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has welcomed the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) further recognition...
Media Release ANMF welcomes superannuation boost for working women
Thursday 07 March 2024
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2024, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has commended the ...
Media Release ANMF Statement: Vale Linda White
Friday 01 March 2024
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has been deeply saddened by the tra...
Media Release ANMF launches landmark Nurses Award work value case
Friday 09 February 2024
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has filed a landmark Application at...
Media Release ANMF Statement on Middle East Conflict
Tuesday 31 October 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) condemns the escalating conflict and suffering in the Middle East...
Media Release ANMF Statement: A Voice to Parliament Lost
Sunday 15 October 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has expressed its deep disappointment at the Voice referendum res...
Media Release Nurses & midwives say ‘Yes’ to a Voice to Parliament
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Members of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) are supporting a First Nations Voice to Parliament — a...
Media Release Nursing Peaks Coalition support a Yes Vote to the Referendum on the Voice to Parliament
Friday 15 September 2023
A First Nations Voice to Parliament protected by the Constitution is a key element of the Uluru Statement from the Heart...
Media Release Historic meeting for Lifeblood ANMF members
Sunday 10 September 2023
Hundreds of Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) members employed by Lifeblood, will meet today (Sunday 10...
Media Release Working Together to Deliver Better Staffing in Aged Care Facilities
Thursday 10 August 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) and its members have welcomed new data showing that the overwhelm...
Media Release ANMF Statement: Allowing Women Better Access to Medical Terminations
Tuesday 11 July 2023
The ANMF supports the the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) decision to improve access to medical terminations, b...
Media Release Major changes to rebuild the Aged Care sector start tomorrow
Friday 30 June 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) applauds two significant achievements to rebuild the aged care se...
Media Release Nurses & Midwives supporting ‘Yes’ vote for a Voice to Parliament
Monday 29 May 2023
This National Reconciliation Week (27 May - 3 June), the country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery F...
Media Release A New Plan to Boost Nurse Practitioners in Health and Aged Care
Tuesday 16 May 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is supporting the Nurse Practitioner Workforce Plan (Plan) which ...
Media Release International Nurses Day 2023: Why Nurses are the Future
Friday 12 May 2023
On this International Nurses Day (IND), the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is asking us all to recog...
Media Release A pathway for Nurses & Midwives to deliver better healthcare
Tuesday 09 May 2023
The Albanese Government’s review of the scope of practice of healthcare professionals, including nurses and midwives, as...
Media Release Taxpayer-funding for aged care must go directly to nurses and care workers – not into providers’ pockets
Thursday 04 May 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed the Albanese Government’s funding for a long-awaite...
Media Release ANMF says RN 24/7 is Critical to Ensuring Safe Care for Older Australians
Friday 14 April 2023
The country’s largest union and professional nursing organisation, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF...
Media Release International Women’s Day: Aged Care Workers’ Entitlements at Risk
Wednesday 08 March 2023
On this International Women’s Day (IWD) the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has revealed that some a...
Media Release Providers threaten to withhold aged care wages
Monday 27 February 2023
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has raised concerns that some aged ...
Media Release Wage Win For Undervalued Aged Care Workers
Tuesday 21 February 2023
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has applauded the order by the Fair...
Media Release ANMF Welcomes Funding for WA Nurse Practitioners
Monday 20 February 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) welcomes the Federal and Western Australian Governments’ $11.7 mi...
Media Release ANMF Calls for Funding for Medicare Reforms in May Budget
Friday 03 February 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is calling on the Albanese Government to use the Federal Budget t...
Media Release ANMF Welcomes Medicare Reforms
Tuesday 24 January 2023
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has welcomed the news that nurses have been recognised as playing...