Lifeline Australia welcomes the NSW Government’s budget funding of $43.3 million over four years to deliver phone and digital crisis support and suicide prevention services and help ensure the organisation can respond to sustained increase in demand for support. This funding, which builds on the Minns Government’s 2023 election commitment to expand text and webchat … Continued
Friday 12 June 2026 The NSW Government today ignored a clear warning from its own independent climate adviser: that expanding coal mining breaks the state’s climate laws, and our kids will pay for it. The Government accepted four of the Commission’s five findings but refused to accept the most important one: that continued coal mine … Continued
ASMOF NSW – The Doctors Union says recent reporting on worsening wait times and ambulance ramping at Westmead Hospital confirms what frontline doctors have been telling the NSW Government for the past two years: NSW hospitals are under unacceptable pressure and its medical staff and patients who are paying the price. The latest Bureau of … Continued
Media Release 4th June 2026 Uniting welcomes changes to NSW’s unfair drug driving laws – now for further positive drug law reform Uniting has welcomed today’s announcement by the NSW Government of proposed changes to laws relating to medicinal cannabis use and driving in the state. Alexandra Hogan, Uniting … Continued
RELEASE Aboriginal women are now imprisoned at 22 times the rate of non-Indigenous women — the highest on record. More than 60 per cent of women in NSW prisons are held on remand — awaiting trial — with 52 per cent ultimately not receiving a custodial sentence. Most are charged with minor offences. Most are … Continued
MEDIA ALERT- EVENT The 10th Annual Keeping Women Out of Prison (KWOOP) Parliamentary Breakfast will bring together over 270 parliamentarians, leaders, advocates and judicial officers dedicated to transforming the lives of women affected by the criminal justice system. The event shines a spotlight on the systemic issues fuelling women’s incarceration in NSW, supported by evidence-based … Continued
Media Statement For immediate release 1 June 2026 Death, taxes and rising poker machine losses: NSW on track to lose $10 billion in 2026 NSW families and communities are being hit by a record surge in poker machine losses, with new government data showing $2.37 billion lost in the first three months … Continued
Media Release 27th May 2026 The first safe injecting centre in the Southern Hemisphere celebrates 25 years Uniting will today celebrate 25 years operating the Southern Hemisphere’s first medically supervised injecting centre with an event at NSW Parliament attended by the NSW Premier and politicians from across the political divide. … Continued
WHAT ASMOF representatives will hold a media conference ahead of the closing submissions hearing in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission on the Doctors Award, the largest wage case in the Commission’s history. The focus will be on creating an Award system that addresses systemic understaffing, fatigue and overwork, and facilitates the delivery of safe … Continued
One in three frontline doctors in NSW public hospitals are considering resigning, with excessive hours pushing an already overstretched workforce to breaking point, a new report released by ASMOF – The Doctors Union, has found. The report by UTS School of Public Health’s Dr Sarah Wise drew on the largest ever survey of NSW public … Continued
