Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the government is closely monitoring the situation in China, where a wave of COVID-19 infections is sweeping through the country.
APM Human Services has secured a further $200 million debt facility, taking its total debt to over $1 billion, after entering a series of acquisitions.
The state government has tabled what it says will be a final pay bump of between 3 per cent and 4.5 per cent to WA nurses and called on the union to come back to the negotiating table on working conditions.
APM is set to to buy NDIS therapy provider Everyday Independence for $52 million-plus in the company’s third acquisition since listing on the ASX over a year ago.
Janet Reah has vowed the nurses’ union won’t again defy the industrial relations commission’s orders as the threat of deregistration lingers following last month’s strike.
VeinTech, and researchers at Telethon Kids Institute, are among the medical researchers who will tomorrow win $2.2 million of grants through the state’s health future fund.
Wesfarmers has reported more than 500 breaches of modern slavery at its supplier sites in the past financial year, a jump from 386 breaches reported in 2021.
Nurses have received public support from a major ally ahead of tomorrow's strike, while the opposition has called for unions to respect the industrial umpire's orders.
The biggest transplant charity in Australia is calling to bring back option to consent to organ donation when applying for or renewing a driver’s licence as part of a national campaign launched at federal parliament this morning.
Nurses must wait until later this month to vote on the state government’s pay deal, after a ruling by the Industrial Relations Commission this afternoon.
A report says hundreds of hospital patients are occupying much-needed beds for thousands of days because there are no community facilities to release them into.
The Australian Nursing Federation has all but conceded its members will have to accept the state government's offer of a 3 per cent pay rise, rather than pursue a 10 per cent claim.
Well-connected former Joondalup Health Campus boss Kempton Cowan has been hit with nine new child abuse allegations, after federal police screened his electronic devices.
The nursing union has hit back at claims it is being disingenuous in its wages deal talks with the state government, arguing the package had a lot of weasel words but was light on detail.
Amber-Jade Sanderson branded the nursing union's rejection of a second wages deal “disingenuous”, claiming it was now the only thing standing in the way of getting its key demand.
