The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is pleased to announce its Federal Secretary Annie Butler has been appointed to the federal government’s new Strengthening Medicare Taskforce. Health Minister Mark Butler said members of the taskforce would work together to identify key recommendations for the government to deliver on its pre-election […]
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed the Federal Government’s reinstatement of $750 COVID leave disaster payments for essential workers through the latest ‘winter wave’ of the pandemic. Prime Minister Albanese made the decision this morning during a meeting of National Cabinet, following ongoing calls from the ANMF and […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is urging members of the public to protect themselves, their family and friends as a new wave of COVID infections sweeps across the country – and support the nurses, midwives and care workers who have supported us all throughout the pandemic. The ANMF says it is imperative we […]
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is calling on the new Albanese Government to reverse a decision to scrap COVID leave disaster payments, which have supported frontline workers throughout the pandemic. From today, workers who cannot work due to COVID-isolation requirements, will no longer be entitled to receive emergency payments […]
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), congratulates new Ministers in key portfolios in the Albanese Government, including Mark Butler in the health portfolio, Annika Wells in aged care and Ged Kearney, a former nurse and ANMF Federal Secretary, in the role of Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care. The […]
The lack of sustainable funding and real reform for health and aged care shows that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has failed to ‘do his job’ to restore and rebuild Australia’s public health system and the private aged care sector, according to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF). While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a […]
A coalition of peak nursing organisations is calling on National Cabinet today to include Australia’s highly-skilled nursing practitioner (NP) workforce in the COVID vaccination roll-out. Nurses deliver the majority of vaccines in Australia and NPs are the most highly skilled and educated nurses in the clinical nursing workforce. NPs have the qualifications and expertise to […]
ANMF Media Release 31 October, 2019 The title of today’s Interim Report from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – “Neglect” encapsulates aged care in Australia. Unfortunately, it’s that simple – the history of aged care in Australia is a story of woeful and increasing neglect, according to the Australian Nursing and […]
ANMF Media Release. 17 December, 2018 The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), says funding of $552.9 million for aged care home care packages in the 2018-19 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), will have minimal impact on the quality and quantity of care provided to vulnerable nursing home residents still […]
ANMF Media Release, 28 October 2018 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed many of a Senate Committee’s recommendations aimed at greater transparency for the country’s taxpayer-funded, for-profit aged care providers. However, ANMF Federal Secretary, Annie Butler, says the Senate Economics Reference Committee did not go far enough in making the big for-profit […]
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