Workplace Conditions

West Australian nurses and midwives have sought an urgent meeting with their union over staff

A powerful alliance of business groups has urged the government to reinstate temporary industrial relations measures. Major business

Around 300 nurses and midwives are striking in NSW in protest of an "insulting" pay rise offer and working conditions they say are unsafe.

WorkSafe Victoria has launched a new campaign highlighting the need for employers and the community to come together to stamp out violence in the workplace, including within

A $1.8 million pilot program is being launched at six NSW hospital emergency departments to screen for patients who may be victims of domestic violence.

A new report by Royal Melbourne Hospital has detailed its moves to curtail the nation's largest institutional coronavirus outbreak among healthcare workers.

A series of novel behaviour change trials run in Victorian hospitals over the past three years has revealed insights on the role that human behaviour plays in avoidable medical

It is common for healthcare workers across the globe to attend work when they are sick with flu like symptoms, according to a new international study. Co-author

An Australian Medical Association Queensland survey of more than 600 doctors has found 70 per cent say they do not have enough personal protective equipment.

An Asian doctor at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital was told by family to stay away from a child she was treating amid fear of the coronavirus outbreak.

The NT chief minister says the Darwin region has enough hospital beds despite the emergency department head claiming there was a shortfall over Christmas.

Melbourne's supervised injecting centre will be separated from a needle exchange and outreach service after two health workers were accused of drug trafficking.

   Yesterday’s strike by NSW

A Melbourne west hospital has admitted to allegations junior doctors have been overworked, amid claims of exploitation taken to the workplace watchdog.

Some 22,000 public hospital workers are preparing to strike for up to four hours at facilities across NSW over workplace safety concerns. Some

NSW public hospital workers including paramedics, allied health and security staff plan to strike for four hours as they fight for increased hospital security.

A Melbourne doctor who posted online that "some women deserve to be raped" has been suspended indefinitely amid an investigation by Australia's health

Unions are calling on the WA government to hold a summit with frontline medical staff to help improve safety at hospitals following another major assault.

A Brisbane surgeon is seeking a right of reply after state parliament was told of sexual and professional misconduct complaints against him.

Planning has begun to move the run-down, 103-year-old King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth to the more modern QEII medical precinct. Western