The minority Liberal Government must act swiftly to negotiate a final pay offer that recognises and addresses their outstanding concerns and remaining key priorities of the ANMF and their membership.
Our hardworking and dedicated nurses and midwives are exhausted and running on empty.
Budget Estimates revealed that $25.9 million was spent on overtime for nurses to May 2023. This money could have been better spent on hiring new nurses to take pressures of the existing workforce.
The Rockliff Government and new Health Minister Guy Barnett must work constructively with the ANMF and its membership to provide improved workplace safety, measures to manage fatigue and burnout as well as deliver competitive wages.
The ANMF has consulted widely and in good faith with its membership and it's time the Government did the same.
A Labor Government will work constructively with our nursing workforce and is committed to health workforce development ensuring all the health policies we announce are backed with genuine workforce attraction and retention measures.
The Liberal Government must work constructively and in good faith with the ANMF and its membership to reach an agreement.
Anita Dow MP
Shadow Minister for Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing
