News: Index by Category

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Aged Care
General
Industrial Relations
Medicare
Mental Health
Politics
Public Health

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agedcare

Act on Dementia Today or Forget Tomorrow
Aged Care Complaints Hotline for Victoria
Aged Care Nurses In Tasmania Angry Over Wage Offer
Aged Care Union Slams Government over Bad Nursing Home
Coalition fails to address workforce issues in aged care
HSU welcomes aged care overhaul with caution
HSUA Calls For Answers Over Terrible Conditions in Nursing Home
HSUA launches Quality Care campaign in Aged Care
Labor’s Aged Care Policy Will Improve Care
Moree Homes Fails On Care and Staffing
NACA calls on parties to get the link between aged care and health right
No appeals process for staff in aged care that raise complaints
Staff and Residents Suffer due to Staff Shortages

general

Industrial Action at Tasmanian Nursing Home
Mental Health Claim Launched In Victoria
$10 Not Enough For Award Workers
$27 pay rise a win for ACTU and low-paid workers
2010 National Ride 2 School Day is almost here
Federal Election 9th October - Time for Parties to Put Health First
A Healthier Future For All Australians report released
A new structure for the HSU
ACTU Campaign: WorkChoices - Never Again
ACTU Condemns Disgraceful Federal Govt Attack On Sacked Workers
ACTU National Competition for Students
ACTU Secretary Greg Combet's Report from Congress
ACTU provides comment on the model OH&S laws
ACTU: Abbott’s slash & burn approach to economy would jeopardise the recovery
ACTU: Labor’s schools-based apprenticeships welcome
ACTU: Liberals can do much more than ‘tweak’ Fair Work laws and can’t be trusted
ACTU: Workers’ job and income security better protected under new Labor plan
AIRC President Speaks Out on Work Choices
AIRC confirms employer power to sack at will
ALP Backs Aged Care Workers and Families
ALP Health Plan a Breakthrough for Staff and Families
ALP Industrial Relations Taskforce
ALP pledges to give all Australian workers protection from unfair dismissal
Abbott Appointment a Potential Disaster
Abbott Holds Back Cervical Cancer Drug
Across Australia working people are saying no to the Government’s unfair IR laws
Action Now Required on Health Workforce
Action Required on More Than Aged Care Paperwork
Action needed on Bird Flu
Administrator appointed to the HSU Victoria Branch
Ads Continue Campaign Against New IR Laws
Aged Care Affected by Staff Shortages
Aged Care Phone-In
Aged Care Staffing Raised in Complaints Report
Aged care complaints on the rise
Aged care inquiry to resume in 2005
Ambulance safety must be investigated
Andrews turns his back on aged care workers and the elderly
Anglican leader speaks out over changes to work laws
Audit Finds Broughton Hall Failed to Provide Infectious Outbreak Guidelines
Australia Farewells a Great Fighter for Working People
Australia a leader in growth of casual work
Australian Government to Consider New Approaches to Disability
Bargaining for the Modern Economy Fact Sheet
Become a Super Cadet
Big Win for the HSU in NSW
Bishop Plays Politics While Residents and Staff Suffer
Branch Secretary Returned Unopposed
British expert warns against public private partnerships in health
Budget Measure on Teeth Not Enough
Business survey finds no benefits from chopping unfair dismissal laws
Campaign targets poverty, health and education
Campaign to save Gippsland Mental Health Services Widens
Care Complaints Top Concerns About the State of Aged Care
Care of Residents and Hospital Patients Must Come First
Challenges to Sackings - too expensive under workchoices.
Changes to work laws could make things worse in health: new report
Churches join in campaign over cuts in rights at work
Close the Gap: Shortage of Dental Care a National Problem
Concern over Ambulance Resources in NSW
Concern over the future of Melbourne Hospital
Congress endorses New Union Values
Contractors told to match union rates
Costello supports getting rid of unfair dismissal laws for all workers
Crean Promises New Deal with States on Health
Day of Action Begins
Day of action against Work Choices
Delaying wage case will cost workers
Delegate Rights Fact Sheet
Dental Nurses Win Landmark Deal
Dental wating lists grow and hurts the poor the most
Disability Campaign Far From Over
Disability Carer’s Vote NO to Non-Union Workplace Agreement
Disability Dispute Worsens - Union Calls Full Day Strike
Disability Workers Begin Industrial Action
Discount cars for HSU members
Dvision 2 Nurses Win in New Victorian Pay Deal
Earth Hour - 28 March 2009
Employee surveillance needs framework
Employers Win Right To Undercut Minimum Wage In New IR Laws
Employment Survey Shows Workchoices Hitting Workers Hard
Every Home Must Get Spot Check A Year
Extra beds and ambulance officers needed in NSW
Extra parental leave granted but will it be available?
Failures in work laws
Families will be affected by new work laws
Fed Govt Attacks Workers Compo Laws
Federal Government Announces Funding Package for Mental Health
Federal Government Campaigning with Disability Services Funds
Federal Government Needs Action Not Reports
Federal Government announces Comcare review
Federal/State Disability Funding Agreement Negotiations
Financial statement available for HSU members
Funding System for Aged Care Facilities Should be Overhauled
GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ JOB SECURITY GONE
Gear Up Girl Challenge - Canberra
Gender pay gap costs $93 billion each year
George the Dog takes a light hearted look at the election
Get on the roll
Government Fails to Tackle Staffing and Care Crisis
Government Refuses to Guarantee Workers Won't be Worse Off
Government Review of Aged Care Complaints Investigation Scheme
Government ads heavily criticised in the High Court
Government ads misleading and costing us
Government asks the Productivity Commission to investigate Paid Maternity Leave
Government interferes in workplace
Government releases discussion paper on National Employment Standards
Government's own advice says low paid will suffer under new work laws
Government’s Own Research Shows Its Failing on Ageing
Govt Spin Doctors Kept On To Spruik IR Reform
Greater job security for those who want it - Labor's Casual Employment Policy
Greater scrutiny needed in aged care
HACSU Members Endorse Respect & Reward Agreement
HSU Asks Questions on Aged Care
HSU Calls For Action over Coroner's Report
HSU Calls For Medicare Package To Be Scrapped
HSU Calls for GP clinics and Extra Beds
HSU Calls for Senate Inquiry into Aged Care
HSU Concern over Treatment of Disability Worker
HSU Highlights Crisis in Access to Affordable Dental Care for Older Australians
HSU Highlights Government Neglect of Aged Care
HSU Holds 2004 National Conference
HSU Join Save Medibank Alliance
HSU Members Credit Union Starts Operation
HSU Members Strike over Privatisation
HSU Members Urged to Support Child Care Campaign
HSU NSW Branch health professionals forum
HSU NSW Members Win Jobs Back
HSU Promises Action Over Sacked Workers
HSU Takes the Message to Abbott
HSU To Push for Jobs and Care Guarantees
HSU Welcomes ALP Announcement on Dental Care
HSU Welcomes Labor's Plan To Boost Hospital Spending
HSU Welcomes New Labor Leader
HSU calls for action over huge doctors payments
HSU calls for hygiene hit-squads
HSU committed to long term campaign over work laws
HSU members rally for rights
HSU members take action to clean up Victorian hospitals
HSU members win big pay rise in NSW
HSU rejects calls for hospital privatisation
HSU takes IR message to the Central Coast
HSU takes part in day of action for James Hardie asbestos victims
HSU urges members and families to turn out on Tuesday
HSU vows to oppose changes to rights at work
Health Alert - Latest News from the Health Services Union
Health Alert - News from the HSU
Health Alert - News from the HSU March 15 2004
Health Heads the list of Australians Concerns
Health Professionals Most Honest and Ethical
Health Professionals National Registration update
Health Services Union East Branch Election
Health Services Union First Female National Secretary
Health Services Union Members Rally to Oppose Unfair Work Laws
Health Services Union SA Branch Election
Health Services Union Tasmania Number 1 Branch Election
Health Services Union Tasmania Number 2 Branch Election
Health Services Union Victoria Number 4 Branch Elections
Health Services Union Victorian Number 2 Branch Elections
Health Services Union WA Branch Election
Help get young people out of nursing homes
High Income Executives get the biggest Tax cuts under John Howard
Historic Changes in the Union
Hospital Radiographers and Nuclear Medicine Technologists to Strike in NSW
Hospital staff walk out over cuts in services to the public
Hostel Report Prompts Call for Ministerial Intervention
Howard Abandon’s Working Australians
Howard's AWAs: Longer Hours, Less Pay
Howard's Aged Care Stunt - No Guarantees Of Quality Improvement
Howard’s IR Laws Hurt Women
IR Battle Lines Drawn
IR Revolution Likely To Continue If Howard Govt Re-elected
IR laws hurt pay but help profits: study
Important Tax Information for Nurses
Industrial Action forces Boss back to Negotiating Table
Industrial Legislation Update
Inquiry confirms the claims of HSU members in aged care
Inquiry to examine dirty hospitals
International Women's Day Seminar at UnionsNSW
International Women’s Day – 8 March 2008
It's all about country - an exhibition of Arrernte Watercolours
Jeff Lawrence takes over as ACTU Secretary & vows to intensify campaign against
Job and Income Security Fact Sheet
John Howard's missing guarantee - watch the video
Kim Beazley on Workchoices - 'I will rip up these laws'
La Trobe (Victoria) Your Rights at Work BBQ & Letter boxing
Labor News From Canberra
Labor News From Canberra No2
Labor News From Canberra No3
Labor Plan Seeks To Free Up Public Hospitals
Labor Senator Speaks Out on Aged Care
Labor's View on Health
Low Paid Workers Get $19 Extra a Week
Major Aged Care Employer Seeks to Slash Conditions Under Howard’s new worklaws.
Mature Age Carers in the Workforce Project - Video Opportunity
Medicare Changes Must Go
Medicare Day of Action tomorrow
Medicare Forum a Great Success
Medicare Package Still Falls Short
Medicare Turns 20 But Still Experiencing Pain
Medicare rally this Friday in Melbourne
Melbourne motorists are asked the question
Members Angry at Tasmanian Nursing Home
Members encouraged to take part in rallies around Australia
Members take the campaign to the footy
Members urged to register for tsunami relief effort
Mental Health Staff Win in Victoria
Mental Health in crisis - HSU tells enquiry
Mental health report presents accurate picture
Message from ACTU Secretary Greg Combet
Message to HSU members from Labor
Mineral Resources Rent Tax Fact Sheet
Minimum Wage Campaign - Members Stories
Minimum Wage – “Fair Pay Commission” to decide
Minimum Wages Case Begins
Minister Attacks Her Own Medicare Package
Minister says labour costs must fall to New Zealand levels
Modern Awards are now inforce for the private sector
More Evidence That It Pays to Belong
NSW Fair Employer Scheme Launched
NSW Government releases their discussion paper for a new national IR system
NSW Plans Aged Care Day of Action
NSW Society of Labor Lawyers presents Dr Hans Blix
NSW State Govt Steps Up For Health Workers
NSW healthworkers walk off the job today
National Community Day of Protest
National Discussions of Health Professionals’ Issues Planned
National Employment Standards come into effect
National Forum on Medicare and Public Health
National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission to be established
National Reforms to Approved Pathology Practitioners
National Registration Scheme’ Principles Progression
National Secretary’s Report
National registration and accreditation for the health professions
Nationwide Medicare Day of Action
New IR Laws: Good For Executives, Bad For Workers
New Modern Aged Care Industry Award Made
New Modern Award for Health Professionals and Health Support Workers
New Modern Nursing Award made today
New Poll Confirms Opposition to Medibank Private Sale
New Tax Advice for Nurses and Health Workers
New ads on cutting our rights at work
New benefit for members
New laws confirm the assault on workers rights
New modern Doctor's award made today
New report shows union wage agreements higher
No cuts to hospital budgets
No further scrutiny of Medibank sale
Non-union workers must pay bargaining fee
Noro Gastro Virus infects 47 people at Victorian Aged Care facility
Nothing But Pain for Health Workers Under Howard
Notice to Members - Rule Change.
November 15 Rally Video
Now or Never for Patterson
Nursing Home Staffing Levels Inadequate
Official Findings: Union Members Pay Rates Higher
PM Julia Gillard: speech to Sharan Burrow farewell dinner
PM says "sorry"
Penalties, meal breaks and public holidays up for grabs
Pensioner's Forum For NSW Venues
Productivity Commission releases OHS Benchmarking report
Productivity Commission releases paid maternity leave "issues paper"
Proposed IR laws 'uncivilised'
Protest Over Planned Cuts To Mental Health
Psychiatric Nurses and Mental Health Professionals Starting Industrial Action
Public Private Partnerships an international disaster
Public Private Partnerships in health not the answer
Public Support for More Funding in Hospitals and Schools
Queensland Branch Election Results
Queensland Branch Secretary gives his view on John Howard's reconciliation
RCA Non Union Agreement -- REMEMBER TO VOTE NO
Reform and the WA public health system
Reminder - Work Rights Rally on the 28th of June
Report Confirms Aged Care Residents and Staff Suffering
Research Shows Hospitals Suffer When Bulk-Billing Falls
Rockin For Rights
Rural Health Funds Shortfall
Salvos Sell Up While Government Does Nothing
Scabies Outbreak Should Have Been Stopped
Scrap changes to right of entry laws
Secret Howard Government Briefing
Secretary Urges Influenza Vaccinations
Security Officers Win in Perth
Senate Inquiry Chance to Find the Truth on Aged Care
Senate Inquiry a joke
Shameful Episode Shows Tougher Standards Needed in Aged Care
Social Inclusion Week 23-29 November 2009
South Australian branch goes online
St Vincent De Paul Society comments on the reality of income inequality
Staff and Residents Being Let Down in Victoria
Staff in the dark about scabies outbreak
Staffing Levels Too Low in Melbourne Aged Care Facilities
States Back $20 Rise In Minimum Wages
Statewide Industrial Action Planned in Victoria
Students' Investigate The Job Scene And Win
Study Finds Elderly Don't Need Emergency Care
Study Proves Union Claims on Government's Medicare Plan
Study shows why minimum wage is required
Sunday, the 1st of August is National Tree Day
Superannuation – What is in Wayne Swan’s budget?
Surgery should continue at regional Victorian hospitals
Survey reveals problems in dental care
Tasmanian Public Sector members Vote "YES"
Tax Advice for Nurses and Cleaners
Ten things people working in health should know about new work laws
Terrible staffing leads to poor care at Victorian aged care facility
Terrible staffing levels in Victorian aged care facility
Thank You!
The Long Walk 2006 - Albert Park
The Working Poor
They will go further
Time Up for Health Minister
Today is the start of 'Movember'
True state of aged care to be revealed
Two new reports by the Productivity Commission critise salary packaging
UNIONS AIM TO BROADEN IR CAMPAIGN WITH LAUNCH OF NEW ONE-STOP JOINING SERVICE
US Presidential candidates "Walk A Day in My Shoes"
Union Agrees to Lift Work Bans in Psychiatric Services
Union Welcomes Health Professional Staffing Report
Union bid for last pay rise for award workers
Union urges new Minister for Ageing to advocate for amendments to Aged Care Bill
Unions Win $17 A Week Pay Rise For 1.6 Million Award Workers
Unions to push for pay rise for 1.6 million workers
Urgent Action Required on Mental Health
Vale Bernie Banton
Victorian Allied Health Professionals - Christmas Eve Update
Victorian Bushfires
Victorian HSU Health Professionals update re Industrial Action
Victorian Health Professionals to ease Industrial action today
Victorian Mental Health Workers Step Up Campaign
Victorian Stopwork over Medicare, Higher Education and IR
WA Branch Changes its Name
WA Branch Records Fifth Consecutive Year of Growth
WA Branch Surges Again
WA Cancer Patients Suffering Because of Political Fight
WA aged care staff seek our support
WA members back big pay rises
WA union delegates meet over work law changes
Wage case must not be the last
Waiting Time for Aged Care Beds Grows
Walk to Work Day
Warning on the impact of the planned changes to workplace laws
Warning to all Victorian administrative and management staff
What Australians think about their world according to Hugh McKay
What are the impacts of global warming in Australia?
What is Howard Hiding?
Will the Liberals Cut the Medicare cake?
Will this be the last wage case?
Win for security officers at Royal Perth
Women worse off at work:new study findings
Women worse off under Australian Workplace Agreements
Work & Family Test Case : Millions to Benefit
Work Choices Assault Continues as Regualtions Released
Work Choices Regulations Impact on Union Activity
Work bans hit Geelong Hospital
WorkChoices - Whatever the Name...Never Again Fact Sheets
World Environment Day - 5 June 2010
Your chance to tell the federal government how to improve the health system

industrialrelations

Activists say "sign the petition"
Alarming growth in risk to workers’ health & safety rights under Howard-Costello
Australia@Work: The Benchmark Report
Australian Fair Pay Commission listens to the Government and Big Business
Award Modernisation
Bass Rights at Work new volunteers' BBQ (Tasmania)
Big business admits direct link between pro-Liberal ads and $40m taxpayer money
Contract cleaning company says AWAs are 'pointless'
Deakin Rights at Work new volunteers' BBQ (Victoria)
Disability and Community Sector workers are undervalued and underpaid
Don't risk 2nd rate safety
Equal Pay Campaign starts
Fed Govt’s ‘no AWA, no job’ IR laws used to sack worker after 24 years service
Gladstone Rights at Work new volunteers' BBQ (Queensland) 21 October
Gov't can't hide truth about IR laws
HSU National Executive takes action to secure Queensland Branch
HSU rally outside NSW Department of Health tomorrow
Historic Bill puts the nails in the coffin of AWAs
How much further will the liberals take WorkChoices?
I'm earning less now than I was two years ago
IR Commission of SA Finds Work Choices is Unfair and Lacks Balance
Important message regarding the HSU Victoria #1 Branch
Indigenous Workers Survey
Kevin Rudd provides more detail on Labor's Industrial Relations Policy
Kevin Rudd will get rid of Work Choices
Know Where I Stand!
La Trobe Workers tell everyone where they stand
Labor launches Industrial Relations Policy - Forward with Fairness
Labor's Fair Work Bill becomes law
NSW Women suffering under WorkChoices
National Equal Pay Rally
National Study Finds WorkChoices Bad for Women
New Industrial Relations Laws start today
Public comment sought on the Model OHS Laws
Ross Gittins puts in the "hard work uncovering truth about pay rises"
Safe Asbestos Summit - Towards a Safe Asbestos Free Environment
Safety Week - Don't Risk 2nd Rate Safety
Senate Committee hands down its report into the Fair Work Bill
Sign up for better OH&S and workers compensation
Stirling (WA) BBQ this Sunday
Tasmanian Public Sector Nurses meet for a better deal
The USA Minimum Wage Workers Tour
Thursdays are T-Shirt days
Victorian Allied Health Professionals Update
Victorian Government Report finds WorkChoices has 'Gone too Far'
Victorian Health Professionals Dispute goes to Arbitration
WA election campaign
WorkChoices creates fear
Workplace Minister wants to move more young workers onto AWAs

medicare

Appointment of New Labor Health Spokeswoman Welcomed
Both Parties Up The Medicare Bid
Discussion Forum on Healthcare In Victoria
Federal Government Releases Stage 2 of its National Health Reform Plan
Labor launches Save Medicare Hotline
Medicare Day of Action promotional material
Medicare Funding for Teen Dental Plan a Good Start
Medicare Must Be Expanded to Help with Dental Crisis
Medicare Plus Has No Good News for Hospitals
Medicare Plus Sent to Senate
Statistics Show Rise in Hospital Workloads

mentalhealth

La Trobe Rights at Work new volunteers' BBQ (Victoria)
Labor's approach to mental health
Psychiatric nurses and health professionals working in mental health stop work
Victorian Number 2 Branch state wide delegates meeting - 18 October 2007
Victorian Psychiatric Nurses and Clinicians Call for Action
Workforce and Training Issues in Mental Health Need to be Addressed

politics

A little bit of political commentary
Abbott is Wrong for Health Portfolio: Poll
Advertisements launched on new workplace laws
An equal start in life for Indigenous children
Australia's Foreign Aid gets some attention
Can a Leopard change it spots? It seems so.
Commonwealth Health Funding Negotiations Ceased Until After the Election
HSU WA tells it how it is
HSU members turn out across the country
Howard confirms some will be worse off
Huge crowds attend protests over work laws
Join Al Gore in Bali
Last chance to get on the electoral role
Medicare Safety Net for the Rich
Members to Benefit from New Industrial Relations Policy
New 'Your Rights At Work' Ads
Not only union members who oppose right of entry law changes
PM to premiers: hand over IR or I'll take action
Right of entry bill should be rejected
Senator could sink national IR revamp
State back health mutiny
Tax cuts or better services?
The Great Debate
The Rudd Labor Government Ministry
Voting is the Best Revenge

publichealth

$25 million for new bowel cancer screening initiative
AIHW Releases report on chronic diseases
Activity Based Funding Explained
Assistance for the people of Samoa and the Philippines
Australian Health Ministers meet in Melbourne
Call for more information about scabies outbreak at hospital
Dental Nurses Take to the Street
Federal Health Minister admits making policy on the run
Government Offer Inadequate on Wages in Tasmania
HSU calls for sacking of hospital board
Health Sector Job Vacancies Rise - ABS Reports
Health Union Gives Thumbs Up to Medicare Gold
Labor recognises the urgent need to tackle chronic disease
Mental Health Workers Fight To Save Mental Health Services Across Gippsland
NSW Government supports inquiry
New Health Minister orders Skills Shortage Audit
New University-Driven Institute Tackles Australian Health Workforce Crisis
Nurses doctors & health workers urge Medicare emergency vote
Physiotherapists strike at Sydney's RPA Hospital
Possible Ratification of UN Convention on the Rights of People with a Disability
Private Sector versus the Public Sector
Report into Manual Handling of Bariatric People released
SA Health Professionals take action
Swine Flu Vaccination made available to all Australians over 10
Victorian Pathology Provider moves patient data processing off shore
WA parties respond to questions from the HSU

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