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Doctors protest for more pay and better conditions outside NSW Health headquarters in St Leonards on Tuesday.

Emergency beds closed, doctors offered $2000 a day to work as strike begins

Around 370 patients had elective surgeries cancelled as more than 3500 doctors walked off the job on Tuesday.

  • Angus Thomson

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The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike

Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.

  • Angus Thomson
A poster notifying patients of ASMOF NSW’s decision to strike from 8-10 April 2025.

‘Unprecedented’: NSW doctors to defy court order and strike for three days

The union wants a 30 per cent pay rise and working conditions that better address worker fatigue.

  • Angus Thomson
A review into workplace sexual violence within Queensland Health has found the sector’s response and prevention framework is “extensive”, but doesn’t cater well to individual victims’ needs.

One in five reports of sexual harassment at Qld Health took 200 days to resolve

A review of workplace sexual violence in the health system found victims’ needs were routinely overlooked, with some reports taking more than a year to resolve. 

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Shar Christoff Harris with her son.

‘It’s getting worse and worse’: Dying Perth mother stuck in ED for 36 hours

She posted a video after hospital staff were forced to park her at the end of a hallway and put up a makeshift curtain while they waited for a bed in a ward.

  • Sarah Brookes
Bec Mueller Sewell, Gitta Mueller and Doug Sewell

‘This should never have happened’: Why almost 100 admissions only made Bec sicker

Bec was admitted to hospital almost 100 times from age 19. There was nowhere safe for her to get better.

  • Kate Aubusson
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Victoria is planning to legislate nurse-to-patient ratios in intensive care wards for the first time. But three peak bodies have warned of unintended consequences in the way the bill is worded.

Fears wording of new bill could result in fewer nurses in ICU

Three peak healthcare bodies say that the Victorian government’s draft laws would not stop hospitals from cutting up to three senior nurses per day in the state’s largest ICUs compared to current industry standards.

  • Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
Elouise and Danny Massa, and their son Joe (left).

‘It hasn’t worked for Joe’: The law change that will end the Northern Beaches Hospital model

The parents of Joe, who died at the controversial hospital, have welcomed a major shake-up that will reset “our moral compass”.

  • Michael McGowan, Angus Thomson and Frances Howe
Hume City Council councillor Jim Overend in front of the Craigieburn Community Hospital which was built months ago but still isn’t open for use.

Two new Melbourne hospitals were built months ago – but locals still can’t use them

Two of the 10 community hospitals promised by the state government in 2018 have been built but remain largely non-operational, frustrating locals who want to start using them.

  • Broede Carmody and Adam Carey
Rebecca Aliberti with daughters Shekinah, Makaysha and Kasharna and husband Francis.

Hospital patients lose free family accommodation for new apartments

The Victorian government stripped free housing from breast cancer patients and parents of ICU babies months ago, with no alternative system in place.

  • Sophie Aubrey

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