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Sydney Morning Herald: NSW government promises crackdown on ‘unsustainable’ cost of temporary doctors
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has vowed to crack down on the use of private recruitment firms to plug holes in the state’s creaking hospital system, saying the government’s over-reliance on costly third-party companies is unsustainable.
Sydney Morning Herald: Independent funding probe risks becoming an attack on councils: Greens
Sydney’s councils hope an independent review of the funding model for local governments will come up with a simpler scheme that ensures they are more financially sustainable in the long term. However, the NSW Greens warn the probe risks becoming the latest in a “series of attacks” they say Labor...
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Incentivised price gouging’: The private companies making millions off doctor shortages
Private recruitment companies responsible for finding temporary doctors and nurses to plug gaps in critically understaffed NSW hospitals have been accused of deliberately driving up staff costs while also discouraging medical workers from taking full-time jobs in the public health system.
Why is it still so hard to have an abortion in the Riverina?
Four years after abortion was decriminalised in NSW, women across the Riverina are still struggling to access to pregnancy termination services.
Activists disrupt gender-critical conference inside Parliament
On Thursday, trans rights activists interrupted a controversial gender-critical conference, hosted in Parliament House and supported by two members of NSW Parliament, as dozens more protested outside the building.
Demerge Alliance NSW Media Release: Labor urged not to gut demerger pathway from Local Government Act
Concerns that Labor wants to remove the 2021 clause to the Local Government Act which mandates government funding for council demergers are a serious worry to the Demerge NSW Alliance (DNA).
Some Sydney councils want to break up, but who will foot the bill?
The mooted break-up of forcibly merged NSW councils including Inner West is set to be derailed because the new NSW Labor government doesn’t want to foot the bill. Despite some councils pushing ahead with demerger plans based on previous assurances the costs would be covered by the state government, new...
Prayer issue shows parliament has ‘long way to go’ on inclusion, says NSW upper house member
Dr Amanda Cohn, a new member of the New South Wales upper house who has Jewish heritage, has questioned the practice of reciting Christian prayers to open each parliamentary day and suggested the parliament must become more inclusive.
Breaking News: Trans and gender-diverse Queenslanders can now change birth certificate without sexual reassignment surgery
In a historic win, QLD passed laws yesterday that will allow trans and gender-diverse Queenslanders to change the gender on their birth certificates without having to undergo surgery. This is a life-changing development that will modernise birth certificates in QLD. Now, it's time for NSW to be next.
ACT passes Australian-first laws to protect intersex people from unneccessary surgeries without their consent
A ground-breaking law has just passed in the ACT that will create waves of change in the lives of intersex people - making the ACT the first territory or state in Australia to legally protect intersex people from being forced to undergo unnecessary surgeries without their consent.