Important information about our history

• Nurses have a long and proud history of organisation on what can be broadly categorised as industrial professional, social and environmental issues.  Follow this link to find out more about the development of unionism in nursing.
  
  
• The majority of First Fleeters - the convicts - certainly deserve to be called workers, and their struggles were a lead up to unionism in Australia.  Follow this link for an overview of the development of Australian trade unions and the labour movement.
  
  
• Follow this link for an historical time line of the development of wage fixation since Federation.