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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 18/11/2024
- 13:21
GPs urge government to make healthcare more affordable as patients delay care
GPs are urging the government to do more to make essential GP care affordable after a national survey showed more people are delaying care they need due to financial concerns amid the cost-of-living crisis. ABS data released today revealed the proportion of patients citing cost as a reason they have delayed or avoided seeing their GP has increased from 7% to 8.8%. It also confirmed that females, younger people, lower income people and patients with long-term health conditions were more likely to delay or not use health services when needed due to cost. RACGP President Dr Nicole Higgins said: “Funding…
- Mental Health
- 18/11/2024
- 13:16
WINGS of Hope Gathering Returns to Inspire Hope and Remember those Lost to Suicide
WINGS of Hope Gathering Returns to Inspire Hope and Remember those Lost to Suicide The annual, free event unites community members impacted by suicide…
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- Industrial Relations, Medical Health Aged Care
- 18/11/2024
- 12:57
Unprecedented: St Vincent’s Private Hospitals nurses and midwives start industrial action for safe staffing
Almost 1000 nurses and midwives across St Vincent’s Private Hospitals’ four Melbourne healthcare facilities have started unprecedented protected industrial action from 7am, Monday 18 November. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch) has been negotiating a new enterprise agreement since June with St Vincent’s Private Hospitals management for its hospitals in Fitzroy, East Melbourne, Kew and Werribee. ANMF members’ stage one protected industrial action includes: wearing red campaign t-shirts, speaking to residents, family, the community and the media about their campaign, administrative bans, a ban on non-clinical paperwork linked to funding, a ban on admin related to billing clients…
- Employment Relations, Human Resources
- 18/11/2024
- 12:56
Recalibrate First Nations Orgs Leading the Way
The highly anticipated Recalibrate Gender Equity Awards 2024 will take place on the 20th of November at the prestigious Crown Melbourne, celebrating the extraordinary…
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- Business Company News, Travel Tourism
- 18/11/2024
- 12:52
It’s a Gold Rush for Tamborine Mountain Glades
It’s a Gold Rush for Tamborine Mountain Glades at the Tourism Awards If you see a new glimmer over Tamborine Mountain, relax, it’s just…
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- Environment
- 18/11/2024
- 12:01
New Monash University climate partnership to empower a small island nation in the South Pacific
A new project by the PACT (Pacific Action for Climate Transitions) centre, a Monash Business School and Fiji National University collaboration, is set to help Nauru, the world’s smallest island nation, in its fight against climate change. Located about 3000 km north-east of Australia, Nauru is 21 square kilometres, with a population of approximately 11,000 residents. Limited by remoteness, with a lack of natural resources outside fisheries, the island’s interior has been gutted by more than a century of open-cut phosphate mining. Past mining practices have rendered more than 80 per cent of its landmass uninhabitable and devastated the landscape.…
- General News, Transport Automotive
- 18/11/2024
- 11:38
Pedal to the metal: Demand for Lime e-bikes skyrockets after scooter ban
Melbourne city dwellers have swapped scooters for bikes with an exponential increase in the usage of Lime e-bikes since scooters were banned in Melbourne…
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- CharitiesAidWelfare, Environment
- 18/11/2024
- 11:35
MEDIA RELEASE: Climate crisis having a profound impact on adolescent girls’ safety, education and health in Pacific – new research
Media Release: Monday 18 November, 2024 Climate crisis having a profound impact on adolescent girls’ safety, education and health in Pacific - new research [Baku, Azerbaijan ] A new report launched today at COP29 on children and youth day, by humanitarian and girls’ rights organisation Plan International Australia and the Kiribati Climate Action Network (KiriCAN) paints a stark picture of the immense hardship adolescent girls in the Pacific are facing due to more frequent and devastating climate disasters. The Pacific Girls in a Changing Climate research documents the lived experiences of climate change for girls and young women aged 10…
- CharitiesAidWelfare
- 18/11/2024
- 11:34
Why Toilets are Key in Adapting to Climate Change
WaterAid Australia Chief Executive Tom Muller writes on the impacts of climate change on access to sanitation across the Pacific. Tomorrow is World Toilet…
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