QNU Archives

National Employee Entitlement Support Scheme (19/4/2000)
QCU claim to increase casual loading (9/11/1999)
Howard government sends all male delegation to ILO session on the Maternity Protection Convention!  (26/10/1999)
'Overtime and penalty rates outdated' say employers (20/7/1999)
QH Enterprise Bargaining Information - Overview  (6/5/1999)
Queensland Health EBIII - Summary of Agreement (6/5/1999)
QNU Concerns over TriCare Agreement (6/5/1999)
Child Care (6/5/1999)
Youth Wages (6/5/1999)

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Aged Care issues

QNU Aged Care Phone In (29/10/2001)
QNU Survey reveals continuing problems (6/7/2001)
Assistants in Nursing ARE part of the nursing team (7/3/2001)
Accreditation - the means not the end! (7/3/2001)
Aged Care News - 14-8-00
We Won! - Churches of Christ Case - Stunning Victory for QNU and Nursing (14/8/2000)
QNU Aged Care Award Variations (22/8/2000)
Churches of Christ Case (19/5/2000)
Aged Care News
Nurses forecast decline in quality of care
Important message to aged care nurses
The Future for Aged Care Nursing?
What is Nursing?
More on Why Aged Care Needs Nurses
2 Year Review of Aged Care Act - Summary of QNU Final Submission
Nursing Home Operators Jailed!
Productivity Commission Inquiry into Nursing Home Subsidies - Update
Nursing Under Threat!
The Role of Nursing in Aged Care
Why Aged Care Needs Nurses
Case Aims to Keep Nursing in Nursing Homes
Aged Care and Prescribed Services Update
12 Month Report on the Impact of Aged Care Reform on Nurses in Queensland
Aged Care Reform

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Professional issues

QNU Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry into Public Hospital Funding
Ministerial Recruitment and Retention Taskforce Implementation Update
AIHW Preliminary Nursing Workforce Data Released
Informatics Role for Nurses - New course!
Graduate Nurses - The Future of Nursing (includes QNC Position Statement)
Ministerial Recruitment and Retention Taskforce - Implementation continues!
Handover - It's Important - Coroner's Decision
More on Californian nursing laws
Laws enacted in California to protect patients
Nursing Shortages Predominate in National Skill Shortages List
Ministerial Taskforce Recommendations - Implementation Begins!
Minister Acts on Taskforce Report!
Re-thinking Nursing - National Nursing Workforce Forum
Nurse numbers falling
Patient Nurse Dependency System Survey - Private Sector, Preliminary Results
Valuing Nursing - Summary of the QNU submission to the Queensland Health Ministerial Nursing Recruitment and Retention Taskforce
Enrolled Nurses - The Vital Link - Conference '98
Nurse Practitioners
Patient Dependency Systems (including QNU Policy)
Individual Accountability - Will it Alone Maintain Standards?
Have we Forgotten the Care in Health Care?

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Industrial relations - general issues

Queensland Pay Equity Enquiry Underway
2nd Wave Defeated!
Information on Peter Reith's 2nd Wave Industrial Relations legislation and how you can lobby Senator Andrew Murray by email
QNU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (More Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 1999
Nurses' unpaid overtime - the glue holding the Victorian system together!
Countries working less hours record faster productivity gains
Pregnant and Productive – HREOC report handed down
Australian Nursing Federation - One of Australia's Best Unions
Don't Let Peter Reith Tip the Balance Even Further
"Second Wave" of federal industrial relations reforms heading our way!
The Queensland Industrial Relations Taskforce Report
Federal Government's Employment Initiatives
New Approach Needed to Working Life in Australia
What is Happening to Industrial Relations?
This Time There are Victims (Paper on Industrial Relations Reform)
Changes to Federal Legislation

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Privatisation

Publicly Funded Privately Operated - Where is the Accountability? - QNU concerns about Mayne Health Collaborative Nursing Model
Privatised LaTrobe Hospital May Return to Public Control
Private Health Insurance Numbers Increase - No Guarantees on Public Hospital Funding
Parliamentary Works Committee hands down report on Noosa and Robina Hospital Projects
MBF plan for ‘no-gaps’ insurance for Queensland private hospitals referred to ACCC.
Privatisation of health
Continuing Concerns over Interstate Experiments with Privatisation
Brave New World for Queensland Health
Just What is the Role of Government
Update on the Privatisation of public health facilities
Privatisation of Public Health - In the Public Interest?
Queensland Health - For Sale?

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Politics

Federal Election 2001 - Defending Wages and Working Conditions
Federal Election 2001 - Addressing Workforce Issues
Federal Election 2001 - Aged Care:  time to stop the Exodus
Federal Election 2001 - Defending the public health system
Are you concerned about changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?
Healing our Hospitals - Senate Inquiry Findings
Fall in private health insurance numbers
Federal government forgets role in the bush
State Ministers angry about health funding
Big surplus, but little in federal budget for nurses
Issues of Concern to Queensland Nurses
Whoops There Goes the Social Wage!
As a Matter of Fact - Answering the Myths and Misconceptions about Indigenous Australians
The Rise of Charities and Their Legal Protections

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From the Secretary's desk

Why should we be concerned about CHOGM?
An important federal election for nurses - 2001!
Queensland election result!
Once the negotiations finish...the hard work begins!
So, just what is nursing? - nurses know!
Enterprise Bargaining - More than Just a Wage Rise!
It All Comes Down to Professional Integrity
Some Things Change...Some Things Stay the Same!
Union Aid Abroad
The Tyranny of Niceness!
Celebrate the Past - Claim the Future!
Work, Time, Life Issues
A Note about Health Funding
The Risks for Health Managers
The importance of political power for nurses
The Role of the Government
De-regulation and Nursing
Who Took the Heart Out of Health Care - Nurses Demand it Back