Rural birth care 'crisis' looms amid staff shortages Women are travelling long distances to give birth, kids are waiting years to see specialists, and mental health services are struggling, a committee has found. AAP · Mar 27, 2025
Sydney hospital’s plan to increase mental health beds stymied by psychiatrist shortage, court hears Campbelltown hospital was due to expand beds for psychiatric patients from 66 to over 100, to deal with district’s larger population The Guardian - AU · Mar 19, 2025
NSW psychiatrist quit when workload threatened patient safety, court hears Dr Suzanna Goodison’s evidence before Industrial Relations Commission part of the push by doctors union to stem exodus of specialists from the public system The Guardian - AU · Mar 18, 2025
Cops tout arrests during state-first pill-testing trial Police charged a number of people with drug offences at a music festival participating in a controversial state government pill-testing trial. AAP · Mar 3, 2025
Katrina was separated from her newborn twins for 33 days. NSW psychiatrists warn specialised support for mothers is in crisis Experts says it is ‘devastating’ to see beds in mother-baby units closing amid psychiatrists’ dispute with NSW Health The Guardian - AU · Feb 24, 2025
Greens Push For Major Reform To Expand Abortion Access In NSW Research last year found only three out of 220 public hospitals in NSW are routinely providing abortions. Pedestrian.tv · Feb 19, 2025
CFMEU members storm the offices of Queensland Council of Unions – as it happened This blog is now closed The Guardian - AU · Feb 18, 2025
Nurses cop national ban over anti-Israel 'kill' rant Two nurses who suggested Israeli patients would be killed or refused care have had their registrations suspended as police weigh up laying charges. AAP · Feb 12, 2025
‘I Will Kill Them’: Sydney Nurses Face Investigation After Alarming Anti-Israeli Video Two nurses from Sydney have been stood down after a video surfaced showing them making disturbing comments about Israeli patients. Pedestrian.tv · Feb 12, 2025
Sydney nurses stood down after claiming they would kill Israeli patients in social media video PM condemns footage as ‘sickening’ as police and the healthcare watchdog investigate The Guardian - AU · Feb 12, 2025
'I'll kill them': outrage at nurses' anti-Israeli taunt Two nurses have been blacklisted from Australia's biggest hospital system after a video showed them boasting they would kill Israeli patients in a "vile" rant. AAP · Feb 12, 2025
NSW Health could save $35m a year by giving psychiatrists a 25% pay rise, modelling suggests Exclusive: Figures assume pay rise would entice psychiatrists back to work and reduce state’s reliance on casual doctors over four years The Guardian - AU · Feb 11, 2025
A country practice luring health workers to the bush Healthcare workers getting a taste of life in the country are staying in the bush, as medical groups push for rural health to be a federal election priority. AAP · Feb 3, 2025
3 Hospitalised In Suspected Botulism Cases Linked To Unregulated Anti-Wrinkle Injections In Sydney “Botulism, although rare, can be fatal, which is why it is so important that anyone receiving cosmetic injections does so under the supervision of an appropriately registered health practitioner.” Pedestrian.tv · Jan 25, 2025
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025 Three people hospitalised in Sydney with suspected botulism following anti-wrinkle injections Investigations are ongoing to determine the specific anti-wrinkle product used
The Guardian - AU · Jan 24, 2025 Three people in hospital in Sydney after suspected botulism cases linked to anti-wrinkle injections Woman in intensive care as NSW Health urges community to only receive cosmetic injections from authorised practitioners
The Guardian - AU · Jan 21, 2025 Wards in NSW’s largest psychiatric hospital close as mass resignations begin Doctor calls situation ‘an absolute disaster’ for public mental health system and vulnerable patients
AAP · Jan 17, 2025 Doctors baulking at $3k a day to plug mental health gap Patients in mental distress will face tele-consults as NSW Health scrambles to lessen the impact of two in three public psychiatrists resigning.
The Guardian - AU · Jan 16, 2025 NSW government asks private sector to take public hospital patients as hundreds of psychiatrists set to resign Exclusive: Guardian Australia has seen an email from the director of Australia’s largest private mental health provider about the contract
The Guardian - AU · Jan 14, 2025 Half of the psychiatrists in NSW’s public service are preparing to resign. Here’s why Health minister Mark Butler warns of ‘devastating consequences’ for patients and their families if the strike goes ahead
AAP · Jan 14, 2025 EDs face surge of patients with psychiatrist exodus Emergency departments could bear the brunt of housing large numbers of mental health patients after 60 per cent of one state's psychiatrists threatened to quit.
The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2024 NSW health system ‘not capable’ of providing abortions at all public hospitals, advocates say Reproductive choice charity says even if obligations to provide abortion services were enforced, too many doctors are untrained or unwilling to provide them
The Guardian - AU · Dec 11, 2024 Free bottled water for NSW town after high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in bore water Authorities investigating after PFAS levels in water supply at Warialda, New England found to exceed guidelines
AAP · Nov 12, 2024 Thousands rally as nurses reject one-or-the-other deal Angry nurses will not accept delaying their demand for improved staffing ratios as a condition of securing a major pay rise.
Pedestrian.tv · Nov 8, 2024 NSW Health Minister Steps In After Orange Hospital Ban Abortions For Patients Without Complications The news comes hours after the ABC reported that Orange Hospital in NSW banned abortions for patients without "early pregnancy complications”.