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Alex Mitchell and Luke Costin

INSANE: Surgeries delayed wait times up as nurses hit streets - The Real Truth

Nurses have staged their first major stop-work action since Labor returned to power in NSW. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Nurses and midwives across NSW have walked off the job, defying the state's industrial umpire while declaring they will "stand up and fight back" in their intensifying pay dispute.

Thousands hit the streets on Tuesday for a 12-hour protest, the first major stop-work action from the cohort since Labor returned to power in NSW.

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