NEWS
7News: TGA makes changes to increase access to medical abortion
Restrictions on dispensing abortion medication at GPs and pharmacies have been lifted. Dr Amanda Cohn, Greens MP, says these changes by the TGA are really important for access to abortion, but more is needed to ensure both medical and surgical abortions are available, accessible and affordable for all people.
Health Services Daily: Solution to costly locum doctors ignored for 15 years
Fifteen years after the Garling report and NSW Health still has casual doctor supply problems.
Media Release: NSW needs 2 Step up as medical abortion pill access expanded
Dr Amanda Cohn, NSW Greens MP and a former medical abortion prescriber, has responded to newly announced federal reforms to improve access to medical abortion.
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...