ANMF Acting Federal Secretary Annie Butler says some of the for-profit operators are making significant profits from a largely government-funded industry while failing to employ enough staff and provide decent standards of care.
ANMF (South Australia {SA} Branch) is a state (provincial) member of the national
ANMF and is the largest union in the state.
The plenary speakers included Lee Thomas, federal secretary of
ANMF; Helen Kelly, president of the Council of Trade Unions; Philippa Gander, research professor and director of the Sleep/Wake Research Centre at Massey University Wellington campus; Jane Kelsey professor of law, policy and international economic regulation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland; and Marilyn Head, senior policy analyst NZNO.
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For the purpose of the performance comparison, the existing
ANMF is written as
Australia's largest union, with 249,000 members, the
ANMF partnered with pro-euthanasia group Go Gentle in September to launch a campaign supporting a bill to legalise VE currently before the South Australian parliament.
The achievement of key milestones in operationalising nursing ethics in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s would not have been possible had it not been for the progressive initiatives lead by Australia's lead national nursing organisations, in particular the RANF/ANF (now the
ANMF) and the new schools of nursing that were established following the transfer of nursing education from the hospital to the higher education sector.
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In Australia, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (
ANMF) continues to seek implementation of nurse/patient ratios in the public, private and aged-care sectors.
Industry representatives such as the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (
ANMF) have done much to raise public awareness of the employment plight of new graduates.
The
ANMF has over 259,000 members working across Australia in cities, rural, regional and remote locations and in every area of health, health prevention and aged care.